@article{2cfcc0be2efc45e79030cfbb0ad405e3,
title = "COMET Phase-I technical design report",
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.",
keywords = "LEPTON-FLAVOR VIOLATION, DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY, NEUTRINO MASSES, MUON, CONVERSION, RADIATION, DETECTOR, SCINTILLATOR, CONSTRAINTS, SIMULATION",
author = "{The COMET Collaboration} and R. Abramishvili and G. Adamov and Akhmetshin, {R. R.} and A. Allin and Ang{\'e}lique, {J. C.} and V. Anishchik and M. Aoki and D. Aznabayev and I. Bagaturia and G. Ban and Y. Ban and D. Bauer and D. Baygarashev and Bondar, {A. E.} and C. C{\^a}rloganu and B. Carniol and Chau, {T. T.} and Chen, {J. K.} and Chen, {S. J.} and Cheung, {Y. E.} and {Da Silva}, W. and Dauncey, {P. D.} and C. Densham and G. Devidze and P. Dornan and A. Drutskoy and V. Duginov and Y. Eguchi and Epshteyn, {L. B.} and P. Evtoukhovitch and S. Fayer and Fedotovich, {G. V.} and M. Finger and M. Finger and Y. Fujii and Y. Fukao and Gabriel, {J. L.} and P. Gay and E. Gillies and Grigoriev, {D. N.} and K. Gritsay and Hai, {V. H.} and E. Hamada and Hashim, {I. H.} and S. Hashimoto and Ignatov, {F. V.} and Kazanin, {V. F.} and Kozyrev, {A. N.} and Tolmachev, {S. S.} and Yudin, {Yu V.} and Рубан, {Александр Анатольевич}",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1093/ptep/ptz125",
language = "English",
volume = "2020",
journal = "Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics",
issn = "2050-3911",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "3",
}