Yuki Fujii, Yu Nakazawa, Ewen Lawson Gillies, Eitaro Hamada, Masahiro Ikeno, MyeongJae Lee, Satoshi Mihara, Yuta Miyazaki, Masayoshi Shoji, Chau Thanh Tai, Tomohisa Uchida and Kazuki Ueno for COMET Collaboration
Abstract:
A COMET Experiment Phase-I is designed to search for a muon to an electron conversion with a 100 times better sensitivity than the current upper limit on its branching ratio in order to investigate the new physics beyond the standard model. To achieve such an unprecedented sensitivity, a high intensity muon beam is mandatory. In consequence, an extremely high hit rate is predicted and it can cause a high trigger rate more than tens of kHz dominated by the background events. Then the high trigger rate would lead to the severe dead-time in the data acquisition. Therefore it is essential for a success of the experiment to reduce the trigger rate down to a few kHz within a processing time shorter than 5 μs while maintaining the signal efficiency high enough. We are developing an event classification algorithm utilising a CDC hit information and a dedicated fast online trigger system to accomplish this aim. The event classification based on a boosted decision tree shows 3.8 kHz of trigger rate, which almost satisfies the rate requirement, with a good compatibility to the trigger electronics. The total processing time to generate the trigger decision is estimated to be ~3 μs which also fulfils the timing requirement.
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