TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.17.025
TI  - A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e
PY  - 2025/07/23
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.17.025
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 17
SP  - 025
A1  - Chithirasreemadam, Namitha
AU  - Donati, Simone
AU  - Murat, Pavel
AB  - 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.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.17.025,
	title={{A data-driven method to estimate the antiproton background in Mu2e}},
	author={Namitha Chithirasreemadam and Simone Donati and Pavel Murat and on behalf of the Mu2e collaboration},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={025},
	year={2025},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.17.025},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.17.025},
}