The Technical Design for the COMET Phase-I experiment is presented in this paper. COMET is an experiment at J-PARC, Japan, which will search for neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of an aluminum nucleus ($\mu$–$e$ conversion, $\mu^{-}N \rightarrow e^{-}N$); a lepton flavor-violating process. The experimental sensitivity goal for this process in the Phase-I experiment is $3.1\times10^{-15}$, or 90% upper limit of a branching ratio of $7\times 10^{-15}$, which is a factor of 100 improvement over the existing limit. The expected number of background events is 0.032. To achieve the target sensitivity and background level, the 3.2 kW 8 GeV proton beam from J-PARC will be used. Two types of detectors, CyDet and StrECAL, will be used for detecting the $\mu$–$e$ conversion events, and for measuring the beam-related background events in view of the Phase-II experiment, respectively. Results from simulation on signal and background estimations are also described.

Results on the systematics of the magnetic penetration depth k,b in the high-temperature superconductors Bi2Sr~Cal, Y,Cu208+g (z =0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4, 0.45) and Bi2 Pb Sr2CaCu208+g(x=0.15,0.30,0.70) are reported from muon-spin-rotation measurements on polycrystalline samples with known oxygen excess 5. In determining A, ,z various additional sources for inhomogeneous internal field distributions, besides the one arising from the Aux-line lattice, have been critically taken into account. The most important one arises from a type of powder broadening due to the anisotropy of the field-cooled magnetization.

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is one of the most precisely measured quantities in experimental particle physics. Its latest measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory deviates from the Standard Model expectation by approximately 3.5 standard deviations. The goal of the new experiment, E989, now under construction at Fermilab, is a fourfold improvement in precision. Here, we discuss the details of the future measurement and its current status.

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By means of muon catalysis we study the phenomena in a pt fusion, which have been previously investigated in the only experiment and now are at the frontier of nuclear few-body physics. The experiment is aimed at measuring the yields of the reaction products: γ quanta, conversion muons and e + e − pairs. As a result, we plan to measure the pt-fusion partial product yields (ˇrst time for e + e − pairs) with accuracy not worse than 10%, and this will enable us to obtain the nuclear reaction rates in M1 and E0 transitions in A = 4 system.

T-474 at SLAC is a prototype BPM-based energy spectrometer for the ILC. We describe magnetic measurements and simulations for the 4-magnet chicane used in T-474.

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The residual polarization of negative muons has been studied for phosphorus-doped ([P]: 1.6 × 10 13 cm −3 ) and antimony-doped ([Sb]: 2 × 10 18 cm −3 ) silicon crystals. The measurements were carried out in a transverse magnetic field of 0.1 T over the temperature region 4 K-300 K. The ionized and neutral states of the µ Al pseudo-acceptor were observed in antimony-doped silicon for the first time. The rate of transition from the neutral to the ionized state of the acceptor was found to be equal to 1.2 × 10 6 s −1 over the temperature range 4 K-12 K. The estimated rates of relaxation of the magnetic moment of the acceptor-centre electron shell are 5 × 10 10 s −1 and 1.6×10 12 s −1 in phosphorus-doped silicon and 6×10 11 s −1 and 6.7×10 12 s −1 in antimony-doped silicon at 4 K and 15 K respectively. The experimental results obtained are interpreted in terms of spin-lattice relaxation of the acceptor magnetic moment and of the acceptor-donor pair formation.