MEG - The Experiment to Search for μ→eγ

The MEG experiment, being prepared at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), is soon to start its search for the lepton flavor violating decay of a muon into an electron and a gamma ray, μ→eγ, with a two orders of magnitude higher sensitivity than the previous experiments. The supersymmetric grand unification and the seesaw model for the neutrino masses generally predict branching ratios that are within the reach of the MEG experiment. Here, after a brief description of its concept and detectors, the status and the future plan of the MEG experiment are reported.