Prof. Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol)
The discovery of neutrino oscillations showed that lepton flavour is not a conserved quantity. One of the most significant recent developments in particle physics, this discovery won the Nobel Prize and has spawned a major subfield of particle physics. The observation of lepton flavour violation in the charged lepton sector could be even more dramatic, directly signalling the existence of new, unknown physics. In this talk I will describe the Mu3e experiment at PSI, which will utilise cutting-edge CMOS imaging sensors to search for lepton flavour-violating decays of the muon at the 10^(-16) level, four orders of magnitude more sensitive than the current limit.
