COMET Phase-I technical design report

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Contributors

  • COMET Collaboration - (Author)
  • Chair of Nuclear Physics
  • Chair of Phenomenology of Elementary Particles
  • Georgian Technical University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • RAS - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Novosibirsk State University
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC)
  • Belarusian State University
  • Osaka University
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Peking University
  • Imperial College London
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Nanjing University
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • Novosibirsk State Technical University
  • Belarus Academy of Sciences
  • Charles University Prague
  • Monash University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba
  • Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
  • University of Malaya
  • Kyushu University

Abstract

The Technical Design for the COMET Phase-I experiment is presented in this paper. COMET is an experiment at J-PARC, Japan, which will search for neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of an aluminum nucleus (μ-e conversion, μ-N → e-N); a lepton flavor-violating process. The experimental sensitivity goal for this process in the Phase-I experiment is 3.1 × 10-15, or 90% upper limit of a branching ratio of 7 × 10-15, which is a factor of 100 improvement over the existing limit. The expected number of background events is 0.032. To achieve the target sensitivity and background level, the 3.2 kW 8 GeV proton beam from J-PARC will be used. Two types of detectors, CyDet and StrECAL, will be used for detecting the μ-e conversion events, and for measuring the beam-related background events in view of the Phase-II experiment, respectively. Results from simulation on signal and background estimations are also described.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number033C01
JournalProgress of theoretical and experimental physics : PTEP
Volume2020
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 13 Mar 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85082198127
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ORCID /0000-0001-9023-3606/work/154741947

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Keywords

  • Myon-Electron conversion, COMET, CLF