OPTIMISATION OF THE BEAM LINE FOR COMET PHASE-I

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Title	OPTIMISATION OF THE BEAM LINE FOR COMET PHASE-I
Contributors	A Kurup (Imperial College London, UK), I Puri (Imperial College London, UK), Y Uchida (Imperial College London, UK), Y Yap (Imperial College London, UK), RB Appleby (Manchester Univ., and Cockcroft Inst., UK), S Tygier (Manchester Univ., and Cockcroft Inst., UK), R D'Arcy (UCL, UK), A Edmonds (UCL, UK), M Lancaster (UCL, UK), M Wing (UCL, UK)
Abstract	The COMET experiment will search for very rare muon processes that will give us an insight into particle physics beyond the Standard Model. COMET requires an intense beam of muons with a momentum less than 70 MeV/c. This is achieved using an 8 GeV proton beam; a heavy metal target to primarily produce pions; a solenoid capture system; and a curved solenoid to perform charge and momentum selection. It was recently proposed to build COMET in two phases with physics measurements being made in both phases. This requires re-optimising the beam line for a shorter curved solenoid. This will affect the pion and muon yield; the momentum distributions at the detector; and the collimator scheme required. This paper will present the beam line design for COMET Phase-I, which aims to maximise the yield for low momentum muons suppressing sources of backgrounds in the beam.
Organisation	CI , STFC
Keywords	Physics
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Language	English (EN)

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Paper In Conference Proceedings	In 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'13), Shanghai, China, 12-17 May, 2013, (2013).	http://accelconf.…/papers/wepea074.pdf	wepea074.pdf	2013