PhyStat-v Workshop on Statistical Issues in Experimental Neutrino Physics

The Coherent Muon to Electron Transition (COMET) experiment is designed to search for muon to electron conversion, a process which has very good sensitivity to Beyond the Standard Model physics. The first phase of the experiment is currently under construction at J-PARC. This phase is designed to probe muon to electron conversion 100 times better than the current limit. The experiment will achieve this sensitivity by directing a high intensity muon beam at a stopping target. The detectors probe the resulting events for the signal 105 MeV electron from muon to electron conversion. A boosted decision tree (BDT) algorithm has been developed to find this signal track. This BDT is used to combine energy deposition and timing information with a reweighted inverse hough transform to filter out background hits. The resulting hits are fit using a RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC) fit, which chooses the best fit parameters for an optimized selection of the filtered hits. These hits are then passed to the track fitting algorithm.