A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e
The Mu2e experiment will search for the CLFV process of neutrinoless, coherent conversion of muon to electron in the field of an Al nucleus. One of the expected backgrounds is antiprotons produced by the proton beam at the Production Target and annihilating in the Stopping Target to produce signal-l...
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| author | Namitha Chithirasreemadam, Simone Donati, Pavel Murat, on behalf of the Mu2e collaboration |
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| description | The Mu2e experiment will search for the CLFV process of neutrinoless, coherent conversion of muon to electron in the field of an Al nucleus. One of the expected backgrounds is antiprotons produced by the proton beam at the Production Target and annihilating in the Stopping Target to produce signal-like electrons. Although not a dominant background, it has a large uncertainty and cannot be suppressed by the timing cuts used to reduce the prompt background. However, at Mu2e energies, $p\bar{p}$ annihilation is the only source of events with multiple, simultaneous particles coming from the Stopping Target. We utilized this unique feature and developed a novel approach to reconstruct multi-track events and estimate the antiproton background. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cdf5455fc57a4f768432017d8ea8c1b82025-08-20T03:55:54ZengSciPostSciPost Physics Proceedings2666-40032025-07-011702510.21468/SciPostPhysProc.17.025A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2eNamitha Chithirasreemadam, Simone Donati, Pavel Murat, on behalf of the Mu2e collaborationThe Mu2e experiment will search for the CLFV process of neutrinoless, coherent conversion of muon to electron in the field of an Al nucleus. One of the expected backgrounds is antiprotons produced by the proton beam at the Production Target and annihilating in the Stopping Target to produce signal-like electrons. Although not a dominant background, it has a large uncertainty and cannot be suppressed by the timing cuts used to reduce the prompt background. However, at Mu2e energies, $p\bar{p}$ annihilation is the only source of events with multiple, simultaneous particles coming from the Stopping Target. We utilized this unique feature and developed a novel approach to reconstruct multi-track events and estimate the antiproton background.https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.17.025 |
| spellingShingle | Namitha Chithirasreemadam, Simone Donati, Pavel Murat, on behalf of the Mu2e collaboration A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| title | A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e |
| title_full | A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e |
| title_fullStr | A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e |
| title_full_unstemmed | A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e |
| title_short | A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e |
| title_sort | data driven method to estimate the antiproton background in mu2e |
| url | https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.17.025 |
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