COMET phase-I technical design report
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Journal Article
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.
Date Issued
2020-03-01
Date Acceptance
2019-10-07
Citation
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2020, 2020 (3)
ISSN
2050-3911
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Journal / Book Title
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Volume
2020
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
The Royal Society
Identifier
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09018v2
Grant Number
CN 2898
ST/K001604/1
ST/L002116/1
ST/J500616/1
ST/M000117/1
ST/H000992/2
PP/E000509/1
ST/H000992/1
2007/R2 - IJP
Subjects
charged lepton flavour violation
intense muon physics
beyond the standard model
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 033C01
Date Publish Online
2020-03-13