Abstract
A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay using polarized muons is reexamined in terms of suppression of the serious background arising from an accidental coincidence between an in the normal muon decay and a high energy photon in the radiative muon decay, . It is found that a high energy photon in decay is preferentially emitted parallel to the muon spin direction, similarly to in the normal muon decay. The selective measurements of either ’s or photons moving antiparallel to the muon spin direction would suppress the accidental background for with right-handed and left-handed ’s, respectively.
- Received 10 September 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.R2517
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