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\section{Introduction}
It is known that quarks and neutrinos are mixed and therefore their flavors are not conserved in the Standard Model (SM). However, lepton flavor violation for charged leptons have not yet to be observed. In the minimal version of the SM where massless neutrinos are assumed, lepton flavor conservation is a natural consequence of the gauge invariance. Therefore, it has been considered to naively explain why charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) is highly suppressed.
It have been confirmed that neutrinos are massive and mixed among different neutrino flavor species, by the observation of phenomena of neutrino oscillation. Therefore, lepton flavor for neutrinos is known to be violated. However, CLFV has been yet to be observed, and a discovery of CLFV is considered to be one of the important subjects in elementary particle physics~\cite{Kuno:1999jp}.
In the framework of the Standard Model (SM) with massive neutrinos and their mixing, the branching ratio of $\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$ decay can be estimated. This process is suppressed by the GIM mechanism and the estimated branching ratio is about $O(10^{-54})$. Therefore, the contribution from the SM with massive neutrinos turns out to be very tiny. As a result, it can be concluded that observation of CLFV would indicate a clear signal of new physics beyond the SM with massive neutrino.
CLFV is known to be sensitive to various extension of new physics beyond the SM. Among them, a well-motivated physics model is a supersymmetric (SUSY) model.
In SUSY models, the slepton mixing (given by off-diagonal elements of the slepton mass matrix) would introduce CLFV. In the minimum SUSY scenario, the slepton mass matrix is assumed to be diagonal at the Planck scale. At a low energy scale, new physics phenomena such as grand-unification (GUT) or neutrino seesaw would introduce off-diagonal matrix elements such as $\Delta m_{\tilde{\mu}\tilde{e}}$ through quantum corrections (renormalization). Therefore, the slepon mixing is sensitive to GUT (at $10^{16}$ GeV) or neutrino seesaw mechanism (at $10^{13-14}$ GeV). As a result, it can be concluded that CLFV has potential to study physics at very high energy scale.
The most prominent muon CLFV processes is coherent neutrino-less
conversion of a negative muon to an electron (\muec conversion) in a muonic atom.
When a negative muon is stopped in some material, it
is trapped by an atom, and a muonic atom is formed. After it cascades down
energy levels in the muonic atom, the muon is bound in its 1{\em s}
ground state. The fate of the muon is then either decay in orbit (DIO)
($\mu^{-} \rightarrow e^{-}\nu_{\mu}
\overline{\nu}_{e}$) or nuclear muon capture by a nucleus $N(A,Z)$ of mass number $A$
and atomic number $Z$, namely, $\mu^{-} + N(A,Z) \rightarrow \nu_{\mu} + N(A,Z-1)$.
However, in the context of lepton flavor violation in physics beyond the Standard
Model, the exotic process of neutrino-less muon capture, such as
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\begin{equation}
\mu^{-} + N(A,Z) \rightarrow e^{-} + N(A,Z),
\end{equation}
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is also expected. This process is called \muec conversion in a muonic atom.
This process violates the conservation of
lepton flavor numbers, $L_{e}$ and $L_{\mu}$, by one unit, but the
total lepton number, $L$, is conserved.
The event signature of coherent \muec conversion in a muonic atom
is a mono-energetic single electron emitted from the conversion with
an energy ($E_{\mu e}$) of $E_{\mu e} = m_{\mu} - B_{\mu} - E_{recoil}$,
where $m_{\mu}$ is the muon mass, and $B_{\mu}$ is the binding energy of the 1$s$ muonic atom. $E_{recoil}$ is the nuclear recoil energy which is small and can be ignored. Since $B_{\mu}$ varies for various nuclei, $E_{\mu e}$ could be different. For instance, $E_{\mu e} = 104.9$ MeV for aluminum (Al) and $E_{\mu e}$ = 104.3 MeV for titanium (Ti).
From an experimental point of view, \muec conversion is a very
attractive process in the following reasons: (1) First, the energy of the signal electron of about 105 MeV is far above the end-point energy of the normal muon decay spectrum ($\sim$ 52.8 MeV).
(2) Secondly, since the event signature is a mono-energetic electron,
no coincidence measurement is required. The search for this process
has the potential to improve sensitivity by using a high muon rate
without suffering from accidental background events, which would be serious
for other processes, such as $\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$ and $\mu\rightarrow eee$ decays.
The previous search for \muec conversion was performed by the SINDRUM II collaboration at PSI. The SINDRUM II spectrometer consisted of a set of concentric cylindrical drift chambers inside a superconducting solenoid magnet of 1.2 Tesla. They set an upper limit of \muec in Au of $B(\mu^{-} + Au \rightarrow e^{-} + Au) < 7 \times 10^{-13}$.
\begin{figure}[b!]
%\centering
\parbox{0.50\textwidth}{
\includegraphics[width=0.24\textwidth,angle=270]{figs/YK-mu2e-gs.eps}
}
\parbox{0.49\textwidth}{\vspace*{0cm}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figs/YK-comet-gs.eps}
}
\caption{Schematic layouts of the Mu2e (left) and the COMET (right).}\label{fg:mu2ecomet}
%\vspace{-5mm}
\end{figure}
New experimental projects to search for \muec conversion with a higher sensitivity are being pursued in the USA and Japan. One proposal in the USA is the Mu2e experiment at FNAL.\cite{mu2e08} It is aiming to search for \muec conversion at a sensitivity of better than $10^{-16}$. Figure~\ref{fg:mu2ecomet}(left) shows the proposed layout of the Mu2e experiment. It consists of the production solenoid system, the transport solenoid system and the detector solenoid system. The Mu2e experiment is planned to combat beam-related background events with the help of a 8 GeV/$c$ bunched proton beam of about 8 kW in beam power at FNAL. The detector solenoid is a straight solenoid and therefore both positive and negative charged particles entering the detector. The Mu2e experiment was approved at FNAL PAC in 2009 and obtained the DOE CD-0 approval. Right now the Mu2e collaboration is working on CD-1.
The other experimental proposal to search for \muec conversion, which is called COMET (COherent Muon to Electron Transition), is being prepared at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), Tokai, Japan.\cite{come07} The aimed sensitivity at COMET is similar to Mu2e, namely better than $10^{-16}$. A schematic layout of the COMET experiment is presented in Figure~\ref{fg:mu2ecomet}(right). The major differences of the designs between Mu2e and COMET exist in the adoption of C-shape curved solenoid magnets for electron transport. It is useful to eliminate oppositely-charged particles (like protons) from nuclear muon capture, before going into the detector, resulting in lower single counting rates in the detectors.
Recently, the COMET collaboration has taken a two-staged approach, in which COMET Phase-I starts early and COMET Phase-II (the full COMET) will follow~\cite{phaseI12}. KEK and J-PARC have endorsed the staged approach. Because of the Phase-I budgetary constraints, a detector to search for \muec conversion in COMET Phase-I would be a cylindrical drift chamber placed in a solenoidal magnetic field, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fg:phase1}. In this configuration, both positive and negative particles (including protons) could enter the drift chamber. Right now, KEK is keen to start construction of COMET Phase-I in 2013 as the earliest, if the budget is available.
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\begin{figure}[htb!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{figs/COMET-Phase1-Detector.eps}
\caption{Schematic layout of a cylindrical detector for COMET Phase-I.}
\label{fg:phase1}
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\end{figure}
\section{Scientific value of the experiment}
We, as a jointed force between Mu2e and COMET, would like to measure rates and energy spectrum of charged particle emission after nuclear muon capture on aluminum. The rates and spectra of charged particle emission, in particular protons, is very important to optimize the detector configuration both for the Mu2e and COMET Phase-I experiments.
The tracking chambers of COMET Phase-I and Mu2e are designed to be measure charged particles of their momenta greater than 70 MeV/$c$ and 53 MeV/$c$ respectively. In that momentum ranges, it turns out that single hit rates of the tracking chambers would be dominated by protons after nuclear muon capture. The second source on hit rates could be electrons from muon decays in orbit (DIO). In order to make a single hit rate of the tracking chamber at a reasonable level, the both experiments are considering to place proton absorbers in front of the tracking chambers to reduce proton hit rates. However, the proton absorber would deteriorate the reconstructed momentum resolution of electrons at birth. And similarly the rate of proton emission is important to determine thickness of the muon stopping target made of aluminum. Therefore it is important to know the rate so that the detector system can be optimized in terms of both hit rate and momentum resolution.
\begin{figure}[htb!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figs/si-proton.eps}
\caption{charged particle spectrum from muons stopping and being captured in a silicon detector~\cite{sobo68}.}
\label{fg:silicon-proton}
\vspace{-5mm}
\end{figure}
Unfortunately the yield, energy spectrum and composition of the charged particles emitted in muon capture on Al and Ti have not been measured directly in the relevant energy range for COMET Phase-I and Mu2e. Figure~\ref{fg:silicon-proton} shows the spectrum of charged particle emission from muons being stopped and captured in a silicon detector \cite{sobo68}. The peak below 1.4 MeV is from the recoiling heavy ions, mainly $^{27}$Al, when no charged particles were emitted. Hungerford~\cite{hung34} fitted the silicon spectrum in Fig.~\ref{fg:silicon-proton} with an empirical function given by
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\begin{equation}
p(T) = A(1-{T_{th} \over T})^{\alpha} e^{-(T/T_0)}
\label{eq:protons}
\end{equation}
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where $T$ is the kinetic energy and the fitted parameters are $A=0.105$ MeV$^{-1}$, $T_{th}$ = 1.4 MeV, $\alpha$=1.328 and $T_0$ = 3.1 MeV. The spectrum is normalized to 0.1 per muon capture. Some other results in the past experiments are summarized in Table~\ref{tb:proton}.
\begin{table}[b!]
\centering
\caption{Probabilities in unites of $10^{-3}$ per muon capture for inclusive proton emission calculated by Lifshitz and Singer. The numbers in crescent parenthesis are estimates for the total inclusive rate derived from the measured exclusive channels by the use of the approximate regularity, such as $(\mu, \nu p):(\mu, \nu p n):(\mu, \nu p 2n):(\mu. \nu p 3n) = 1:6:4:4$.}\label{tb:proton}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
Target nucleus & Calculation & Experiment & Estimate & Comments \\ \hline
$_{10}$Ne & & $200\pm 40$ & & \\
$^{27}_{13}$Al & 40 & $>28 \pm 4$ & (70) & 7.5 for $T>40$ MeV \\
$^{28}_{14}$Si & 144 & $150\pm30$ & & 3.1 and 0.34 $d$ for $T>18$ MeV \\
$^{31}_{15}$P & 35 & $>61\pm6$ & (91) & \\
$^{46}_{22}$Ti & & & & \\
$^{51}_{23}$V & 25 & $>20\pm1.8$ & (32) & \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
The limited information available at present makes it difficult to draw quantitative conclusive detector design. From Table~\ref{tb:proton}, the yield for Al can be taken from experiment to be $>$3\% for $T>40$ MeV, or from theory to be 4\%, or estimated based on the ratio of exclusive channels from other nuclei to be 7\%, or speculated to be as high as Si or Ne, namely 15-20\%. The energy spectrum can only be inferred from the Si data or from Ref.~\cite{bala67}. At this moment, for both COMET Phase-I and Mu2e, this analytical spectrum has been used to estimate proton emission. And also the $p, d, \alpha$ composition is not known. The Ti proton yield can only be estimated from V to be around 3\%.
it might be worth to present how proton emission affects a single rate of the tracking chambers. As an example for COMET Phase-I, single rates of the tracking chamber (cylindrical drift chamber) has been done based on the spectrum given in Eq.(\ref{eq:protons}). To reduce protons entering the tracking chamber, in addition to the inner wall of the drift chamber (of 400 $\mu$m) a cylindrical proton absorber of different thickness is located in front of the tracking chamber. Monte Carlo simulations were done with three different thickness of proton degrader, namely 0~mm, 5~mm, and 7.5~mm. %Figure~\ref{fig:protongenerated} shows a proton momentum spectrum generated (larger than 50 MeV/$c$) in the simulation study, and regions in red show protons reaching the first layer.
The results are summarized in Table~\ref{tb:protonhits}, where the proton emission rate of 0.15 per muon capture is assumed. If we assume the number of muons stopped in the muon-stopping target is $5.8 \times 10^{9}$/s, the number of muon capture on aluminum is about $3.5 \times 10^{9}$/s since the fraction of muon capture in aluminum is $f_{cap}=0.61$. Therefore the total number of hits in all the cells in the first layer is estimated to be 530 kHz (1.3 MHz) for the case of a proton degrader of 5 mm (0 mm) thickness. This example present the importance to understand the proton emission, rate and spectrum, from nuclear muon capture on aluminum for COMET Phase-I and Mu2e.
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\begin{table}[ht!]
\begin{center}
\caption{Total numbers of hits in the first layer by protons emitted from muon capture for different trigger counter thickness. 100 k proton events were generated for COMET Phase-I. 15 \% protons per muon capture is assumed.} \label{tb:protonhits}
\vspace{5mm}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|} \hline
proton degrader thickness & 0 mm & 5 mm& 7.5 mm\cr\hline\hline
% number of 1 hit events & 2467 & 87 & 28 \cr\hline
% number of 2 hit events & 73 & 8 & 1 \cr\hline
% number of 3 hit events & 9 & 0 & 0 \cr\hline\hline
% number of 4 hit events & 1 & 0 & 0 \cr\hline\hline
hits & 2644 & 103 & 30 \cr\hline
hits per proton emission & 2.6 \% & 0.1 \% & 0.03 \% \cr\hline
hits per muon capture$^{*}$ & $3.9\times10^{-3}$ & $1.5\times10^{-4}$ & $4.5\times10^{-5}$ \cr\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\vspace{-10mm}
\subsection{Urgency}
The Mu2e experiment is now under the DOE Critical Decision Review process. The COMET Phase-I construction, at least the beam line, might start next year in 2013. The COMET collaboration needs to complete the detector design as soon as possible. Therefore, measurements of proton emission rates and spectrum that can be done as early as possible become one of the critical path for the both experiments.
\section{Description of the experiment}
The Mu2e and COMET collaboration are planning to work together as a joint force to A schematic layout of the experimental setup is shown in Fig.~\ref{fg:setup}. The setup has silicon detectors to measure energy of charged particles emitted from nuclear muon capture on aluminum. We set an aluminum target in a vacuum chamber at the end of M9B muon channel. Negative muons of momentum of less than 40 MeV/$c$ are used. The use of lower momentum muons (cloud $\mu^{-}$ beam) would increase muons stopping in a thin aluminum target, thus reducing backgrounds. Or, we can use a degrader to maximize a number of muons in the aluminum target. Figure~\ref{fg:muonstop} shows muon stopping distribution in a 50 $\mu$m thick muon stopping target with various thick upstream plastic scintillator, and in this case the muon momentum is 30 MeV/$c$. From Fig.~\ref{fg:muonstop}, the thickness of 13mm is found to be optimum.
Two plastic scintillation counters to identify muons stopping in the aluminum target will be installed. The muons pass the beam counter and stops at the aluminum target, The muons that do not stop pass the downstream counter so that we can identify the muons stopped.
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\begin{figure}[t!]
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figs/setup2.eps}
\caption{schematic layout of the setup.}\label{fg:setup}
\end{center}
}
\parbox{0.5\textwidth}{\vspace*{0cm}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{figs/muonstop.eps}
\caption{Monte Carlo simulation on muon stopping distribution in a 50 $\mu$m target for various degrader thickness, in top from left to right, thickness of a upstream plastic scintillator is 10mm, 11mm, 12mm, in bottom from left to right, 13mm, 14 mm, and 15mm.}\label{fg:muonstop}
\end{center}
}
\end{figure}
Charged particles emitted from nuclear muon capture on aluminum are detected by a pair of two silicon detectors, one of which is a thin silicon detector to measure dE/dX of charged particles (``S1 counter"), and the other is a thick silicon detector to measure their total energies, (``S2 counter"). The S1 and S2 Si detectors are 65 $\mu$m and 1500 $\mu$m thickness respectively. Behind the $E$ counter, a veto counter to ensure charged particles stopping in the S2 counter is set. In front of the silicon counters, collimators are installed to determine the fiducial.
\begin{figure}[htb!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figs/dedx2.eps}
\caption{2-dim. plots of S1 (vertical) vs S2 (horizontal) counters. The plot in top left is for all charged particles. The ones in top right, bottom left and bottom right are for only protons, proton+deuteron, proton+deuteron+tritons.}\label{fg:dedx}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
In order to normalize a number of muons stopping in the aluminum target, a Germanium detector to measure muonic X-rays from muons stopping in the aluminum target is installed (not shown in Fig.~\ref{fg:setup}). It is also currently being considered to have a telescope to detect electrons from muons for additional normalization of a number of muons stopped.
Aluminum targets with various thickness (from 50 $\mu$m to 200 $\mu$m) will be used. It can be tilted with an angle of $30-45^{\circ}$ with respect to the muon beam axis.
It is important to have a thin target to measure the spectrum precisely, otherwise some deconvolution process to correct for energy loss of protons in the target should be involved. It is noted, however that a 200 $\mu$m thick aluminum disk will be used in both COMET Phase-I and Mu2e experiment.
Figure~\ref{fg:dedx} shows Monte Carlo simulation studies of two-dimensional plots of energy of the S1 counter (dE/dX) vs. energy of the S2 counter. From Fig.~\ref{fg:dedx}, it is clearly seen that we can discriminate protons, deuterons and scattered muons and electrons by this particle identification method. And the range of proton energy from 2.5 MeV to 20 MeV can be detected. This energy range is required for COMET Phase-I and Mu2e.
The event rates are estimated based on Monte Carlo simulation. The rates are summarized in Table~\ref{tb:rates}. As seen in Table~\ref{tb:rates}, proton rates of $T>2.6$ MeV are not large. A muon beam whose momentum is low and momentum width is narrow is of critical importance. And also a ratio of signal to background is 1:50. Therefore, a good particle identification is important. From Monte Carlo simulation, a combination of dE/dX and E counters has a sufficient capability of discriminating protons from the other charged particles.
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\begin{table}[htb!]
\caption{Estimated event rates for various targets of different thickness. Incoming $10^{5}$ muons/sec and proton emission rate of 0.15 per muon capture are assumed. The efficiency of Si detector of 100 \% is also assumed. }\label{tb:rates}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
target & stopping & geometry & hit rate & hit rate & hit rate \\
thickness & in target & acceptance & all particles & protons & protons \\
($\mu$m) & (\%) & ($\%$) & (Hz) & (Hz) & (Hz) ($T>$2.6 MeV) \\ \hline
50 & 2.2 & 8.9 & 44.8 & 9.9 & 9.6 \\ \hline
100 & 15.6 & 1.9 & 148.5 & 14.9 & 14.7 \\ \hline
150 & 38.2 & 1.1 & 186.0 & 20.7 & 20.2 \\ \hline
200 & 53.3 & 0.9 & 216.3 & 23.5 & 22.9 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\section{Experimental equipment}
not completed yet....
\section{Readiness}
We have a vacuum chamber and Si detectors, which were used for a similar measurement done at PSI in 2009. For a coming beam test, the vacuum chamber is being tested now at University of Washington (UW). The two exiting Si detectors are also being tested at UW. A possibility to prepare another set of Si detectors is being sought. Amplifiers for the existing SI detects are available. The Osaka University (OU) group is preparing DAQ system based on a TRIUMF standard data acquisition system (MIDAS). The OU group is making arrangement of getting a Ge detector for muonic X-ray measurement, either borrowing from someone or purchasing a new one. Monte Carlo simulations necessary to optimize detector configuration is undergoing at OU and University College London (UCL). Some test beam run to examine a number of muons of low momentum is being requested in September, 2012.
\section{Beam time required}
We are requesting a 36 shifts (three weeks) for measurement. This is based on the estimation as follows. We will need a 2 days setup time including the installation of the equipment, and 5 days of beam tuning to maximize a number of muons stopping in the target, adjustment of data taking electronics, and 2 different thick targets of 7 day data taking for each. Each sample must be installed in the chamber, evacuated (we
need good vacuum). Data taking of 7 days is based on the estimated rate of protons whose kinetic energy $T>$ 2,6 MeV, shown in Table~\ref{tb:rates}. We will accommodate at least 100 k events for each sample.
\section{Data analysis}
Data will be analyzed independently at Osaka University, University of Washington, and University College London, using standard analysis libraries and our own analysis routines. There is no special requirement on data analysis support to TRIUMF.
\vspace{5mm}
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\bibitem{Kuno:1999jp}
Y.~Kuno and Y.~Okada,
%``Muon decay and physics beyond the standard model,''
{\it Rev.\ Mod.\ Phys.\ }{\bf 73}, 151 (2001)
%\bibitem{masi06} L.~Calibbi, A.~Faccia, A.~Masierro, and S.K. Vempati, Phys. Rev. {\bf D74} 116002 (2006).
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\bibitem{mu2e08} R.M.~Carry {\it et al.} (Mu2e collaboration), ``Proposal to Search for \muec with a Single Event Sensitivity Below $10^{-16}$, FNAL proposal, 2008.
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\bibitem{come07} Y.~Kuno {\it et al.} (COMET collaboration), ``A Experimental Search for Lepton Flavor Violating \muec Conversion at Sensitivity of $10^{-16}$ with A Slow-Extracted Bunched Proton Beam'', J-PARC Proposal, 2007 and J-PARC Conceptual Design Report, 2009.
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\bibitem{phaseI12} Y.~Kuno {\it et al.} (COMET collaboration), ``Letter of Intent of Phase-I for the COMET Experiment at J-PARC'', unpublished, March 2012.
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