COMET Phase-I technical design report
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Contributors
- Chair of Nuclear Physics
- Chair of Phenomenology of Elementary Particles
- Georgian Technical University
- Novosibirsk State University
- 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 language | English |
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Article number | 033C01 |
Journal | Progress of theoretical and experimental physics : PTEP |
Volume | 2020 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 13 Mar 2020 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85082198127 |
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researchoutputwizard | legacy.publication#87078 |
ORCID | /0000-0001-9023-3606/work/154741947 |
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Keywords
- Myon-Electron conversion, COMET, CLF