Searching for Lepton Flavor Violation with the MEG experiment (or looking for flying pigs)

As the Standard Model encounters several philosophical problems, New Physics is expected to be found slightly above the mass scale currently probed. Effects due to non-Standard Model features can be easily tagged by the observation of Charged Lepton Flavor Violation. Thus the MEG experiment has been designed and is currently in an advanced phase having started data taking in summer 2008 and is expected to give at least an upper limit on the μ→e+γ decay two order of magnitude better than the current limit [A. Baldini, [MEG Collaboration], at http://meg.psi.ch/docs/prop_infn/nproposal.ps] set by the MEGA collaboration [M. Ahmed et al., Phys. Rev. D 65 (2002) 112002, arXiv:hep-ex/0111030]. Here all experimental challenges are shown together with the main detector features.