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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05492 |
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- The Mu2e experiment, under construction at Fermilab, will search for the neutrino-less coherent $μ^-N\rightarrow e^-N$ conversion in the field of a $^{27}$Al nucleus. Such a process violates lepton flavor conservation. About $60\%$ of muons stopped by an $^{27}$Al nucleus will undergo nuclear capture, while about $40\%$ will decay in orbit. To quantify the conversion probability, we define $R_{μe}$, which is given by the ratio between the $μ^-\rightarrow e^-$ conversion rate and the nuclear capture rate [1]: \begin{equation} R_{μe}= \frac{Γ\left(μ^- + N\left(Z,A\right)\rightarrow e^- + N\left(Z,A\right)\right)}{Γ\left(μ^- + N\left(Z,A\right)\rightarrow ν^-_μ+ N\left(Z-1,A\right)\right)}\,. \end{equation} The upper limit on $R_{μe}$ is $7\cdot 10^{-13}$ at $90\%$ CL, set by the SINDRUM II experiment~\cite{SINDRUM II:limit}. The goal of the Mu2e experiment is to reach a sensitivity on $R_{μe}$ of $8\cdot 10^{-17}$ at $90\%$ CL. This represents a four-order of magnitude improvement over the current experimental limit. Mu2e will take its first data in 2027. The signature for the muon conversion is a monochromatic electron of $104.97$~\si{\mega\eV}/c, an energy slightly below the muon rest mass. While the main experiment goal is to reconstruct the conversion electron, i.e., an event with a single track, there are motivations to develop an efficient tracking algorithm for reconstructing more simultaneous tracks. This could better constrain the background generated by $p\bar{p}$-annihilation in the Al target and to search for other Beyond the Standard Model processes. In this paper, we present an algorithm designed to reconstruct multi-particle events.