MU2E Computing

The muon to electron conversion experiment (Mu2e) will search for the coherent, neutrino-less conversion of a muon to an electron, in the Coulomb field of a nucleus.  Should this process be observed it will provide dramatic evidence of a new physical process that is beyond our current understanding of elementary particle physics.  Such a discovery will blaze a trail towards a new understanding of the universe.  The experiment is still being developed; construction is planned to start around 2013, and data taking around 2017. 

The Fermilab Computing Division (CD) will be involved in many aspects of the Mu2e experiment. Software engineers from CD will develop and maintain the core infrastructure software for the experiment and will help to train the Mu2e scientists to use modern software engineering practices in their development of the scientific software.  This effort includes the distribution of the software suite to geographically dispersed Mu2e collaboration.  CD will host and operate many of the computing resources that will be used to design, build and operate the experiment; this includes databases, GRID based compute nodes, NAS disk space, archival media and robots to mount archival media.  The scientists in the Mu2e collaboration count on Fermilab's high speed network connections to keep them connected to their core computing resources. Scientists and engineers from CD are negotiating roles in the design and construction of the signal processing electronics, the data acquisition system and the trigger system.  Many CD scientists are full members of the Mu2e collaboration, who will participate in the scientific program of the experiment and in the technical areas discussed above.

 More Information: Mu2e experiment site