Status of the MUSE experiment at PSI
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Abstract
It is rare to have a discrepancy in such a fundamental property as the proton size, and yet during the past decade measurements of proton charge radius using muon and electron have disagreed by several standard deviations. The MUon proton Scattering Experiment (MUSE) at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland aims to shed more light on this puzzle, by measuring the elastic scattering of muon and electron (and their antimatter counterparts) on protons in one apparatus. An overview of the puzzle and the status of the MUSE experiment will be presented.
*This material is based upon work Supported by NSF PHY-1812402 at Hampton University via sub-award HU-210002 to University of Basel. The MUSE experiment is supported by the Department of Energy, NSF, PSI, and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
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