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Positron Transport System for Muonium-to-Antimuonium Conversion Experiment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2026-04-20 v2

Abstract

Muonium-to-Antimuonium Conversion Experiment (MACE) aims to find the charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) process. A key component of MACE is the positron transport system (PTS) to collect and transport atomic positrons from antimuonium decays, which consists of an electrostatic accelerator and a solenoid beamline. Through field simulations in \textsc{COMSOL} and particle transport simulations based on \textsc{Geant4}, the PTS can achieve a geometric acceptance of the signal at 65.81(4)\% along with a position resolution of 88(1)~μ\mum~×\times~102(1)~μ\mum. The system achieves 322.4(1)~ns transit time with a spread of 6.9(1)~ns, which allows for a TOF-based rejection of internal conversion backgrounds by a factor of 10710^{-7}. These promising results pave the way for new-physics signal identifications and background rejections in MACE and offer a novel paradigm for internal transport system in high-intensity frontiers.

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@article{arxiv.2508.07922,
  title  = {Positron Transport System for Muonium-to-Antimuonium Conversion Experiment},
  author = {Guihao Lu and Shihan Zhao and Siyuan Chen and Jian Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07922},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures. Comments and suggestions are welcome