Speaker
Description
The COMET experiment at J-PARC aims to search for the coherent, neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminium nucleus. This process violates charged lepton flavor conservation and is forbidden in the Standard Model, so its observation would be a clear indication of new physics. COMET targets an ultimate single-event sensitivity of $10^{-17}$, improving the current limit by four orders of magnitude. The experiment is being conducted in two stages: the first phase (COMET Phase-I) will characterize the high-intensity muon beam and measure background processes, while already achieving a sensitivity of around $10^{-15}$. All the superconducting magnets required for COMET have now been delivered and their installation is well under way, accompanied by steady progress in the construction of the detector systems. This presentation will provide an update on the current status of the facility and detector construction, and outline the plans toward the forthcoming Phase-I data taking and the full-sensitivity search.
