Break-Up Reactions of 6^{6}Li, 7^{7}Be and 8^{8}B

International audienceSecondary beams (6Li,7Be,8B) obtained by separation of fragmentation products of 15N beam (50 A MeV) impinging on a Be target using COMBAS spectrometer. The secondary products will be detected by a telescope consisting of five Si-detectors (dE) and CsI(Tl) detector (Er). By the dE-E method, the telescope allowed us to achieve unambiguous particle identification originating from incident secondary beams as well as theirs reaction products resulting from reactions with one of Si detectors chosen as the target. Accordingly, break-up reactions of 6Li, 7Be and 8B were studied in this experiment

COMET Phase-I Technical Design Report

International audienceThe 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 (⁠|$\mu$|–|$e$| conversion, |$\mu^{-}N \rightarrow e^{-}N$|⁠); a lepton flavor-violating process. The experimental sensitivity goal for this process in the Phase-I experiment is |$3.1\times10^{-15}$|⁠, or 90% upper limit of a branching ratio of |$7\times 10^{-15}$|⁠, 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 |$\mu$|–|$e$| 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