The COMET Experiment: Searching for Muon-to-Electron Conversion

Observing Charged Lepton Flavour Violation would be a clear sign of physics Beyond the Standard Model. The COMET experiment is one of a handful hoping to measure such a process with an intense muon beam. COMET will search for COherent Muon to Electron Transitions, where a muon converts to an electron in the presence of an atomic nucleus without neutrino emission. Currently under construction at J-PARC, Japan, Phase-I is set to start data-taking in JFY 2018 and should improve the current limits on mu-e conversion by two orders of magnitude. Phase-II should then follow in the early 2020s and push the sensitivity by a further two orders of magnitude. In this talk I present an overview of the experiment design and the current status of preparations for Phase-I running.