Abstract

At the Paul Scherrer Institute we are developing a high precision instrument to measure the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the muon. The salient feature of the experiment is the use of the frozen-spin technique to suppress the anomalous precession of the muon spin, allowing for a sensitivity that cannot be achieved with conventional g-2 muon storage rings. With this technique, the expected statistical sensitivity for the EDM after one year of data taking is 6 × 10-23 e · cm with a p = 125 MeV/c muon beam available at PSI.Reaching this goal necessitates a comprehensive analysis on spurious effects that mimic the EDM signal. This work discusses a quantitative approach to study systematic effects for the frozen-spin technique when searching for the muon EDM with a focus on the kinematics of decay positrons in the context of this experiment, which operates at muon momenta well below the ultrarelativistic limit.

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