COMET

• Intense pulsed beam: reduces many backgrounds

• Unique combination of curved solenoids and dipole fields for flexible charge and sign selection

• Factor 10,000 better sensitivity than previous experiment

• The first experiment of its kind

• not a new idea (original concept 1989)
• but no-one has tried anything like this before
• the UK has been involved in COMET since 2007
• we are bringing our own expertise to be pioneers in this area
• learning from COMET, the UK will gain experience that can be applied broadly