COMET
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) (Collaboration)
- University of Houston (Collaboration)
- Kyushu University (Collaboration)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) (Collaboration)
- National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) (Collaboration)
- Georgian Technical University (Collaboration)
- Boston University (Collaboration)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (Collaboration)
- Technical University of Dresden (Collaboration)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- Osaka University (Collaboration)
- University of Washington (Collaboration)
- Cockcroft Institute (Collaboration)
Publications
Zuber K
(2020)
COMET Phase-I technical design report
in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Uchida Y
(2014)
Muon-to-Electron Conversion with COMET
in Journal of Instrumentation
Nakazawa Y
(2020)
Radiation hardness study for the COMET Phase-I electronics
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Krikler Benjamin Edward
An Overview of the COMET Experiment and its Recent Progress
Krikler Benjamin Edward
(2017)
Sensitivity and background estimates for phase-II of the COMET experiment
Edmonds A
(2022)
Measurement of proton, deuteron, triton, and a particle emission after nuclear muon capture on Al, Si, and Ti with the AlCap experiment
in Physical Review C
Akhmetshin R
(2015)
COMET Phase-I Technical Design Report
| Description | The COMET Experiment has been approved and is being constructed. UK contributions, as defined in part through this grant, are reflected in the approval gained and the current plans for construction and data-taking. |
| Exploitation Route | The COMET Collaboration, including ourselves, will continue to build on this work to make a world-leading measurement of muon-to-electron conversion. |
| Sectors | Education,Electronics,Security and Diplomacy |
| Description | Consolidated Grant |
| Amount | £49,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | Daiwa Foundation Small Grant |
| Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10493/11229 |
| Organisation | Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 01/2016 |
| Description | European Partnership Award |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | International Joint Research Promotion Program (Guest Professorship) |
| Amount | ￥6,934,000 (JPY) |
| Organisation | Osaka University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Japan |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | International Joint Research Promotion Program (Guest Professorship) |
| Amount | ￥6,934,000 (JPY) |
| Organisation | Osaka University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Japan |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | International Joint Research Promotion Program (Guest Professorship) |
| Amount | ￥6,934,000 (JPY) |
| Organisation | Osaka University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Japan |
| Start | 04/2017 |
| End | 03/2018 |
| Description | Schrodinger Scholarship |
| Amount | £67,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2014 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | Short Term Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Amount | ￥1,800,000 (JPY) |
| Organisation | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Japan |
| Start | 05/2016 |
| End | 11/2016 |
| Description | AlCap Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Boston University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of the AlCap collaboration, contributing to physics data taking and data analysis for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detectors, data-taking effort and analysis. |
| Impact | Publications in preparation. PhD theses, and proposals for future data-taking |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | AlCap Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Osaka University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of the AlCap collaboration, contributing to physics data taking and data analysis for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detectors, data-taking effort and analysis. |
| Impact | Publications in preparation. PhD theses, and proposals for future data-taking |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | AlCap Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of the AlCap collaboration, contributing to physics data taking and data analysis for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detectors, data-taking effort and analysis. |
| Impact | Publications in preparation. PhD theses, and proposals for future data-taking |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | AlCap Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Houston |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of the AlCap collaboration, contributing to physics data taking and data analysis for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detectors, data-taking effort and analysis. |
| Impact | Publications in preparation. PhD theses, and proposals for future data-taking |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | AlCap Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Washington |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of the AlCap collaboration, contributing to physics data taking and data analysis for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detectors, data-taking effort and analysis. |
| Impact | Publications in preparation. PhD theses, and proposals for future data-taking |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Department | Institute of High Energy Physics |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Cockcroft Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Georgian Technical University |
| Country | Georgia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Joint Institute of Nuclear Research |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Kyushu University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) |
| Department | IN2P3 CNRS |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Osaka University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | COMET Experiment Collaboration |
| Organisation | Technical University of Dresden |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Imperial group participates in the international COMET Experiment collaboration, which spans 14 countries and over 35 institutions (a selection of which are listed here). The Imperial group is contributing the Data Acquisition and Offline Software and Physics Analysis working groups, and holds the elected position of Collaboration Board Chair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaboration is building a new experiment at the J-PARC laboratory in Japan, and are making contributions across the entire experiment (particle beam line, infrastructure, particle detectors and electronics and computing etc. |
| Impact | The experiment has been approved for construction in Japan, and in several other countries, as a result of this collaboration, with Imperial and the UK playing a key role in this. As the experiment is currently under construction (to start taking data in 2019), the main outputs are proposal and technical design documents, research theses and conference proceedings etc, with physics results expected in the next few years. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Title | COMET Trigger/Fast Control/DAQ |
| Description | Flexible trigger/detector fast control/data acquisition system for high-intensity, rare process particle physics experiments. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | The ability to run and acquire data from particle detectors in muon-to-electron conversion experiments and other high-rate rare process searches. |
| Title | ICEDUST |
| Description | Simulation, data-taking and analysis package for the COMET experiment, whose development is led at Imperial, and is now also being used by other international physics collaborations. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | The ability to simulate high-intensity particle physics experiments and analyse the data they output. |
| Description | Colloquium (Georgian Technical University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A broad-ranging talk on muon and neutrino physics at the Department of Engineering Physics, aimed at undergraduate students, with postgraduate students, researchers and university administrators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2017 |
| Description | Colloquium (University of Groningen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colloquium on muon and neutrino physics given to general undergraduate students from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Groningen, Holland, focusing on physics students. Also attended by researchers and postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.rug.nl/research/vsi/colloquia/ |