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+%% Title
+\titlepage[\vspace{5mm}of Department of Physics,\\
+Graduate School of Science]%
+{A dissertation submitted to the Osaka University\\
+for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy}
+
+%% Abstract
+\begin{abstract}%[\smaller \thetitle\\ \vspace*{1cm} \smaller {\theauthor}]
+	%\thispagestyle{empty}
+COMET [1] is an experiment that aims to search for a charged lepton flavor
+violation (CLFV) process, the muon-to-electron conversion in the presence of
+a nucleus,
+\muec. The process is forbidden in the Standard Model (SM), however is
+predicted to occur in various extensions of SM, such as . Current experimental
+upper limit of the branching ratio is $BR(\mu^{-} + Au \rightarrow e^{-} + Au)
+< 7 \times 10^{-13}$, set by the SINDRUM II experiment [2].
+
+Using the J-PARC proton beam and the pion capture by
+a solenoidal field, COMET will have a single event sensitivity  10,000 times
+better than the current limit. The COMET collaboration has taken a phased
+approach in which the first phase, COMET Phase-I [3], starts in 2013 and
+initial data taking in around 2017. 
+
+In order to optimize detector design for the Phase-I, backgrounds from nuclear
+muon capture are crucial. We have proposed a dedicated experiment , namely
+AlCap, at PSI, Switzerland to study the backgrounds, including: heavy charged
+particles, neutrons and photons. The measurements of heavy charged particles
+have been carried out in the 2013 run and the preliminary analysis results are
+presented in this thesis.
+\end{abstract}
+
+
+%% Declaration
+\begin{declaration}
+  This dissertation is the result of my own work, except where explicit
+  reference is made to the work of others, and has not been submitted
+  for another qualification to this or any other university. 
+  \vspace*{1cm}
+  \begin{flushright}
+    Nam Hoai Tran
+  \end{flushright}
+\end{declaration}
+
+
+% Acknowledgements
+%\begin{acknowledgements}
+  %Of the many people who deserve thanks, some are particularly prominent,
+  %such as my supervisor Professor Yoshitaka Kuno.
+%\end{acknowledgements}
+
+
+%% Preface
+%\begin{preface}
+  %The thesis is about measurements of products of nuclear muon capture on an
+  %aluminum target, which is important for optimization of a tracking detector
+  %of a search for muon to electron conversion, the E21 experiment - so called
+  %COMET - at Japan Proton Accelerator Complex (J-PARC).
+%\end{preface}
+
+%% ToC
+\tableofcontents
+
+
+%% Strictly optional!
+%\frontquote{%
+	%Writing in English is the most ingenious torture\\
+%ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.}%
+%{James Joyce}