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We discuss the optimization of a neutrino factory for large \sin^2 2 \theta_{13}, where we assume minimum effort on the accelerator side. This implies that we use low muon energies for the price of an optimized detection system. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Patrick Huber , Walter Winter

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged lepton flavour violating process of coherent neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in the presence of an aluminum nucleus. The muons are produced by an 8 GeV proton beam from…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Z. Liu , J. Williams , A. Makovec , M. Hedges , F. Pellemoine , K. Yonehara , G. Annala , K. Lynch , M. Bloomer , J. Popp , A. Edmonds , J. Miller

Experiments with muons ($\mu^{+}$) and muonium atoms ($\mu^{+}e^{-}$) offer several promising possibilities for testing fundamental symmetries. Examples of such experiments include search for muon electric dipole moment, measurement of muon…

We consider possible detector designs for short-baseline neutrino experiments using neutrino beams produced at the First Muon Collider complex. The high fluxes available at the muon collider make possible high statistics deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-02 Deborah A. Harris , Kevin S. McFarland

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to study proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. The main goal of the experiment is to assess the properties of quark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 Livia Terlizzi

We briefly discuss the physics motivation for a neutrino factory with varying baseline distances of about 1000 to 9000 km. We describe the amount of non planarity of the storage ring required to service three or four detectors at once. A…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 D. B. Cline , Y. Fukui , A. Garren

We propose the development and construction of a novel muon-ion collider (MuIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the USA as an upgrade to succeed the electron-ion collider (EIC) that is scheduled to commence in the early 2030s, by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Darin Acosta , Wei Li

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration has developed the MICE Analysis User Software (MAUS) to simulate and analyze experimental data. It serves as the primary codebase for the experiment, providing for offline batch…

SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a proposed experiment to be installed at CERN, with the aim of exploring the high intensity beam frontier to investigate the so-called Hidden sector. Since the SPS proton beam interacting with the SHiP…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Liliana Congedo

The Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) will be a next-generation facility located at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), built with the goal of accelerating heavy ions up to 275 GeV. To prevent ion beam size growth during the acceleration phase,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Stephen J. Coleman , David L. Bruhwiler , Dan T. Abell , Boaz Nash , Ilya Pogorelov , He Zhang

The Microbunched Electron Cooling (MBEC) is a promising cooling technique that can find applications in future hadron and electron-ion colliders to counteract intrabeam scattering that limits the maximum achievable luminosity of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 G. Stupakov , P. Baxevanis

The results of LSND and MiniBooNE, along with the recent papers on a possible reactor neutrino flux anomaly give tantalizing hints of new physics. Models beyond the neutrino-SM have been developed to explain these results and involve one or…

We consider a highly unconventional approach to generating muon and antimuon bunches for a neutrino factory or muon collider: electron-positron annihilation just above muon-antimuon threshold. This approach can produce low-emittance bunches…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-07-12 D. M. Kaplan , T. Hart , P. Allport

One of the key systems of a Muon Collider (MC) - seen as the most exciting option for the energy frontier machine in the post-LHC era - is its interaction region (IR). Designs of its optics, magnets and machine-detector interface are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 N. V. Mokhov , Y. I. Alexahin , V. V. Kashikhin , S. I. Striganov , A. V. Zlobin

nuSTORM (Neutrinos from STORed Muons) is a proposed storage ring facility to deliver beams of muon antineutrinos and electron neutrinos from positive muon decays (muon neutrinos and electron antineutrinos from negative muon decays), with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-08-03 F. J. P. Soler

The Muon Chamber (MuCh) is a sub-system of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment for the detection of low-mass-vector mesons produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at beam energies ranging from 2 AGeV to 11 AGeV and decaying…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-04 Mitali Mondal , Tanay Dey , Subhasis Chattopadhyay , Jogender Saini , Zubayer Ahammed

The NUCLEUS experiment aims at measuring the coherent elastic scattering of nuclear reactor antineutrinos off nuclei using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3m.w.e., muon-induced backgrounds are expected to be dominant.…

We propose a neutrino lepton collider where the neutrino beam is generated from TeV scale muon decays. Such a device would allow for a precise measurement of the W mass based on single W production: nu l to W. Although it is challenging to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Tianyi Yang , Sitian Qian , Sen Deng , Jie Xiao , Leyun Gao , Andrew Michael Levin , Qiang Li , Meng Lu , Zhengyun You

The Mu2e experiment will search for the charged-lepton flavor violating (CLFV) neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. The conversion process results in a monochromatic electron with an energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-01 R. H. Bernstein

The proposed ICAL detector at INO is a large sized underground magnetized iron detector. ICAL is designed to reconstruct muon momentum using magnetic spectrometers. Energy measurement using magnets fail for muons in TeV range, since the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-21 Jaydip Singh , Srishti Nagu , Jyotsna Singh