A muonic atom's muon can decay to an electron and photon through two-photon flavor-violating operators, and this process could be observable in future muon experiments for heavy target nuclei.
High-energy electrons from the muon decay in orbit: radiative corrections
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We determine the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ correction to the energy spectrum of electrons produced in the decay of muons bound in atoms. We focus on the high-energy end of the spectrum that constitutes a background for the muon-electron conversion and will be precisely measured by the upcoming experiments Mu2e and COMET. The correction suppresses the background by about 15\%.
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$\mu^- \to e^-\gamma$ in a muonic atom as a probe for effective lepton flavor violating operators involving photon fields
A muonic atom's muon can decay to an electron and photon through two-photon flavor-violating operators, and this process could be observable in future muon experiments for heavy target nuclei.