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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 \begin{frame}[t]
 	%--to seperate the poster in columns we can use the columns environment
 	\begin{columns}[t] % the [t] options aligns the columns content at the top
-		\begin{column}{0.28\paperwidth}% the right size for a 3-column layout
+		\begin{column}{\onecolwid}% the right size for a 3-column layout
 			%--abstract block--------------------------------------------------------
 			\begin{alertblock}{Introduction}
 				Charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) has yet to be observed and is
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 				which is an improvement of a factor of 100 compares to SINDRUM II. In
 				addition, the COMET Phase-I will make direct measurement of the proton
 				beam extinction and other potential background sources for the COMET
-				Phase-II experiment, using the actual COMET beamline. 
+				Phase-II experiment, using the actual COMET beam line. 
 
 				\begin{figure}[h!]
 					\begin{center}
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 				line design are in progress, and expected to finish in 2015. The layout
 				of the COMET beam line at Hadron Hall, J-PARC is shown in the Fig.
 				\ref{fig:cometbeamline}. For the COMET Phase-I, we will
-				construct the first 90 degrees of the muon beamline before extracting
+				construct the first 90 degrees of the muon beam line before extracting
 				to the experimental area. Data taking is expected to start around 2016.
 
 				\begin{figure}[h!]
@@ -59,105 +59,114 @@
 		%===rightcolumn=================================================================
 		% here the the middle and right column are put into one big column, this allows
 		% to change between 2 and 3 column style
-		\begin{column}{0.60\paperwidth} %thats the big right column
+		%\begin{column}{0.60\paperwidth} %thats the big right column
-			%\begin{block}{}
+		%\begin{block}{}
-			%===two right columns===========================================================
+		%===two right columns===========================================================
-			% we have to give the total width for the column wich is equal to the sum of
+		% we have to give the total width for the column wich is equal to the sum of
-			% two colums and the space between them, this is needed to make shure the two
+		% two colums and the space between them, this is needed to make shure the two
-			% cols take all the space of the 'mother' column 
+		% cols take all the space of the 'mother' column 
-			%\begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=0.60\paperwidth]
+		%\begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=0.60\paperwidth]
-			% and then we put in two normal sized columns
+		% and then we put in two normal sized columns
-			\begin{column}{0.28\paperwidth}
+		\begin{column}{\twocolwid}
-				\begin{alertblock}{Proton beam}
+			\begin{figure}[h!]
-					COMET Phase-I will use an 8 GeV, 1 $\mu$A, slowly extracted proton beam
+				\begin{center}
-					from the J-PARC main ring (MR). One option for the bunch structure of
+					\includegraphics[width=0.90\twocolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_phase1_tracker.pdf}
-					the proton beam is shown in Fig \ref{fig:pbeam}.
+				\end{center}
-					\begin{figure}[]
+				\caption{Schematic lay out of the COMET Phase I}
-						\includegraphics[width=0.75\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_pbeam_config}
+				\label{fig:phase1}
-						\caption{COMET proton beam acceleration bunch configuration}
+			\end{figure}
-						\label{fig:pbeam}
+			\begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=\twocolwid]
-					\end{figure}
+				\begin{column}{\onecolwid}
-				\end{alertblock}
+					\begin{alertblock}{Proton beam}
+						COMET Phase-I will use an 8 GeV, 0.4 $\mu$A ($2.5 \times 10^{12}$
+						protons/sec), slowly extracted proton
+						beam from the J-PARC main ring (MR). One option for the bunch
+						structure of the proton beam is shown in Fig \ref{fig:pbeam}.
+						\begin{figure}[]
+							\includegraphics[width=0.75\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_pbeam_config}
+							\caption{COMET proton beam acceleration bunch configuration}
+							\label{fig:pbeam}
+						\end{figure}
+					\end{alertblock}
+					\begin{alertblock}{Muon transportation}
+						The muon beam line of COMET Phase-I includes the pion capture
+						section and the muon transport section up to the end of first
+						$90^o$ bend. A high solenoidal field of 5 T is used in the pion
+						capture section to capture as many pions as possible. Pions and
+						muons - produced when pions decay in flight - goes to
+						a matching section, before going to the transport section with
+						a 3 T field. A prototype of this system has been built and operated
+						successfully at Osaka University.
 
-				%--the Left block-----------------------------------------------------------
+						Negative muons  are selected by a dipole field, which 
-				\begin{alertblock}{Pion and muon transportation beam}
+						is created by an additional winding on top of the solenoid
-					\begin{figure}[]
+						windings. A collimator is placed in front of the detector section
-						\includegraphics[width=0.95\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_p1_det_bg}
+						to eliminate high momentum muons (and survival pions).
-						\caption{COMET proton beam acceleration bunch configuration}
+						\begin{figure}[]
-						\label{fig:bg_det}
+							\includegraphics[width=0.75\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/mu_momentum_phase1}
-					\end{figure}
+							\caption{Muon momentum before (upper) and after (lower) the collimator}
-				\end{alertblock}
+							\label{fig:mumomentum}
-				%\end{block}
+						\end{figure}
-				\vskip1ex
+					\end{alertblock}
-				% Methods
-				\vskip2ex
-			\end{column}
-			%--the Right block--------------------------------------------------------------
-			\begin{column}{\onecolwid}
-				\begin{alertblock}{Detectors for COMET Phase I}
-				\end{alertblock}
-				\vskip2ex
-				\begin{alertblock}{}
-					\begin{figure}[]
-						\includegraphics[width=0.95\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_p1_det_bg}
-						\caption{COMET proton beam acceleration bunch configuration}
-						\label{fig:phys_det}
-					\end{figure}
-				\end{alertblock}
-				\vskip2ex
-				\begin{block}{References}
-					\small{\begin{thebibliography}{99}
-							%\bibitem{cdr} The COMET Collaboration, ``Conceptual Design Report for
-							%Experimental Search for Lepton Flavor Violating $\mu^--e^-$ 
-							%Conversion at
-							%Sensitivity of $10^{-16}$ with a Slow-Extracted Bunched Proton Beam
-							%(COMET)'', KEK-2009-10 
-							\bibitem{loi} The COMET Collaboration, ``Letter of Intent for Phase-I
-								of the COMET Experiment at J-PARC'', J-PARC-2012-3
-						\end{thebibliography}}
-					\end{block}
 				\end{column}
-				\begin{figure}[h!]
+
-					\begin{center}
+				\begin{column}{\onecolwid}
-						\includegraphics[width=0.95\twocolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_phase1_tracker.pdf}
+					\begin{alertblock}{Detectors for COMET Phase-I}
-					\end{center}
+						There will be two detectors for two goals of COMET Phase-I: physics
-					\caption{Schematic lay out of the COMET Phase I}
+						measurements and background measurements. 
-					\label{fig:phase1}
+						
-				\end{figure}
+						Detector for background measurements consists of a solenoid magnet,
-				%\end{columns}
+						0.8 - 1 T, 5 straw tube tracker layers and a crystal calorimeter.
-				%--wide text without block------------------------------------------------------
+							This is regarded as a final prototype for Phase-II detector.
-				%Those pictures where drawn with the TikZ package, which is a perfect tool if
+						A lot of detector R\&D  activities are ongoing: ECAL
-				%you want to draw pictures or plot functions or data directly in \LaTeX. To
+						with GSO/LYSO crystals and APD readout; prototype of straw tube
-				%get an impression of the possibilities of this package have a look at its
+						tracker; front end electronic board.
-				%manual \cite{pgf}. It is even possible to wonderfull frames around posters.
+						\vskip-2ex
-				%\vskip2ex
+						\begin{figure}[!h]
-				\vskip3ex
+							\includegraphics[width=0.95\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_p1_det_bg}
-				%--Conclusion block-------------------------------------------------------------
+							\caption{Concept of the detector for background measurements}
-				%   \begin{alertblock}{Conclusion}
+							\label{fig:phys_det}
-				%    As you can see it is possible to make your poster very colorfull. But in 
+						\end{figure}
-				%    most cases this will this will overload your poster. If you don't change 
+						There are two options for the detector for $\mu-e$
-				%    the color settings you will get the default look, which consits of some
+						conversion search. Baseline detector is a cylindrical drift chamber
-				%    shades of the jacobs blue and some decent green highlights. These colors 
+						(CDC), shown in the detector section in Fig.
-				%    where chosen carefully to keep a consistent look of the poster. The 
+						\ref{fig:phase1}. The CDC would help reducing background rate and
-				%    \emph{cpbgposter} style is installed our office computers, so you should be
+						hit rate. The other option is a transverse tracker, in
-				%    able to compile this example out of the box with pdflatex. If you want to
+						which the detector for background measurements will be reused.
-				%    work on your computer make sure that you have a recent TeX distribution 
+
-				%    (TeXlive 2008, Miktex) and download the beamerthemecpbgposter.sty file from
+						The CDC is placed inside a magnetic field of 1 - 1.5 T. The
-				%    our teamwork page and put it in your local TeX directory.
+						magnetic field and radial size of the CDC are adjusted to accept
-				%
+						particles with momentum larger than 70 MeV/c. Segmented triger
-				%    If you have any questions, critics, ideas or if you just want to praise the
+						hodoscope is located before the drift chamber, provides timing
-				%    awesome dude who created this insanely great poster style then don't
+						signal and reduces protons hit rate on the chamber. In order to
-				%    hastitate to write an email to \emph{j.liebers@jacobs-university.de}
+						reach the goal SES, energy resolution requirement for the CDC is
-				%% guess what this command is god for!
+						1.5 MeV at 105 MeV.
-				%    \makeruleinbox
+					\end{alertblock}
-				%% it works, but causes some underfull/overfull \hbox warnings
+					\begin{alertblock}{Schedule}
-				%    \begin{center}
+						\begin{figure}[!h]
-				%     {\huge\vskip-1ex
+							\includegraphics[width=0.95\onecolwid]{../figs/comet/comet_phase1_sched}
-				%     {\color{nred}H}{\color{norange}a}{\color{nyellow}p}
+							%\caption{Technical driven schedule of COMET Phase-I}
-				%     {\color{ngreen}p}{\color{dblue}y}\\
+							\label{fig:sched}
-				%     \TeX'ing!}
+						\end{figure}
-				%    \end{center}
+					\end{alertblock}
-				%   \end{alertblock}
 				\end{column}
 			\end{columns}
-		\end{frame}
+
+		%\begin{column}{\onecolwid}
+			%\vskip2ex
+			%\begin{block}{References}
+				%\small{\begin{thebibliography}{99}
+						%\bibitem{cdr} The COMET Collaboration, ``Conceptual Design Report for
+						%Experimental Search for Lepton Flavor Violating $\mu^--e^-$ 
+						%Conversion at
+						%Sensitivity of $10^{-16}$ with a Slow-Extracted Bunched Proton Beam
+						%(COMET)'', KEK-2009-10 
+						%\bibitem{loi} The COMET Collaboration, ``Letter of Intent for Phase-I
+							%of the COMET Experiment at J-PARC'', J-PARC-2012-3
+					%\end{thebibliography}}
+				%\end{block}
+			%\end{column}
+
+				\end{column}
+				\end{columns}
+			\end{frame}