Free Muons and Muonium - Some Achievements and Possibilities in Low Energy Muon Physics

Abstract

Some recent precision experiments in low energy muon physics are discussed. Spectroscopy on the muonium atom, the bound state of a positve muon and an electron, has provided precise tests of standard theory and yielded most precise values of important fundamental constants. A search for spontaneous muonium to antimuonium conversion test lepton flavour conservation and yields most stringent limits on parameters in several speculative models. The muon magnetic anomaly may contain hints to new physics and is a relevant calibration point for numerous models beyond standard theory. Since most precision experiments are limited by the particle fluxes at present muon sources, possibilities in this field are shown which will emerge at upgraded present facilities or new accelerator complexes under construction or planning. At such places novel techniques would be enabled.