Extension to the build project for the Mu3e MuPix Pixel Tracker

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The Mu3e experiment will study a very large numbers of muon decays. For this the team behind the experiment is building adetector that can measure with unprecedented accuracy the daughter particles produced in these decays. The experimentwill look for a very specific type of decay in which an anti-muon decays to 2 positrons and an electron. Crucially, in this aprocess the anti-muon loses its "flavour" to become a positron. Although other particles such as quarks and neutrinos areknown to do this, such a change of flavour has never been observed for the charged leptons (electrons, muons or taus).If the well-established standard model (SM) of particle physics is the complete story, processes involving the violation ofthe conservation of charged lepton flavour should not be observed. However, particle physicists expect that to address somebig questions in physics, such as why in our universe matter dominates over antimatter, new models going beyond thestandard model are needed. A plethora of such model have been formulated but substantive evidence to corroborate anyof these remains absent.To date, previous experiments have excluded that muon decays involving charged lepton flavour violation occur more than oncein every 1,000,000,000,000 (1E12) decays. The Mu3e experiment will be more sensitive by a factor 10,000,potentially adding 4 zeros to this already impressive result; or - much better - finding evidence of the sought afterdecay process and with that, direct evidence of new physics.Another key question particle physicist are trying to answer is to understand the nature of the mysterious dark matter. Theexistence of dark matter is strongly established from astronomical observations, but its nature remains unknown. Theunique capabilities of the Mu3e experiment to study with great precision the decays product of a very large number ofmuons, also allows the members of the team that will build and operate the detector to search for hypothetical dark photons that provide a link between the matter particles we know and a hidden world of dark matter particles.