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Observational cosmology in the next decade will rely on probes of the distribution of matter in the redshift range between $0<z<3$ to elucidate the nature of dark matter and dark energy. In this redshift range, galaxy formation is known to…

The cosmic-ray intensity record from Belgrade muon detectors in the period 2002-2004 is subjected to power spectra analysis. Statistically significant peaks are found in datasets from both ground and underground (25 m w.e.) detectors. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 Aleksandar Dragić , Radomir Banjanac , Vladimir Udovičić , Dejan Joković , Jovan Puzović , Ivan Aničin

The \emph{muX} project is conducting a series of muonic X-ray measurements in medium- and high-Z nuclei at PSI, utilizing a high-purity germanium detector array, in-beam muon detectors, and a modern digital data-acquisition system. A novel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-25 Frederik Wauters , Andreas Knecht

We analyze observations of the microwave sky made with the Python experiment in its fifth year of operation at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. After modeling the noise and constructing a map, we extract the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Coble , S. Dodelson , M. Dragovan , K. Ganga , L. Knox , J. Kovac , B. Ratra , T. Souradeep

Using the 2MASS Photometric Redshift catalogue we perform a number of statistical tests aimed at detecting possible departures from statistical homogeneity and isotropy in the large-scale structure of the Universe. Making use of the angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Alonso , Ana Isabel Salvador , Francisco Javier Sánchez , Maciej Bilicki , Juan García-Bellido , Eusebio Sánchez

The MURAVES experiment aims at the muographic imaging of the internal structure of the summit of Mt. Vesuvius, exploiting muons produced by cosmic rays. Though presently quiescent, the volcano carries a dramatic hazard in its highly…

The recently developed code for N-body/hydrodynamics simulations in Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), known as RAyMOND, is used to investigate the consequences of MOND on structure formation in a cosmological context, with a particular…

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We present the measurement of the the flux and angular distribution of atmospheric muon neutrinos using the MACRO detector. Three different event topologies are detected in two different energy ranges. High energy neutrinos (E~80 GeV) via…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Spurio

GroundBIRD is a ground-based experiment for the precise observation of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To achieve high sensitivity at large angular scale, we adopt three features in this experiment: fast rotation…

We look for a diurnal anisotropy in the cosmic ray flow, using the Mexico-City Neutron Monitor (NM) detector, due to the Earth's orbital motion and predicted by Compton-Getting (C-G) in 1935, as a first-order relativistic effect. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-27 Carlos Navia , Marcel de Oliveira , Andre Nepomuceno

A measurement of the flux of neutrino-induced muons using the MACRO detector is presented. Different event topologies, corresponding to different neutrino parent energies can be detected. The upward throughgoing muon sample is the larger…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Ronga

Depth-grading of magnetic anisotropy in perpendicular magnetic media has been predicted to reduce the field required to write data without sacrificing thermal stability. To study this prediction, we have produced Co/Pd multilayers with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 B. J. Kirby , J. E. Davies , Kai Liu , S. M. Watson , G. T. Zimanyi , R. D. Shull , P. A. Kienzle , J. A. Borchers

A robust measurement of the clustering amplitude of the sub-mm population of starburst galaxies requires large-area surveys (>> 1 deg^2). The largest-format arrays subtend only 10 arcmin^2 on the sky and hence scan-mapping is a necessary…

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We examine the implications of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) on the large scale structure in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We employ a ``Jeans swindle'' to write a MOND-type relationship between the fluctuations in the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adi Nusser

Usage of secondary cosmic muons to image the geological structures density distribution significantly developed during the past ten years. Recent applications demonstrate the method interest to monitor magma ascent and volcanic gas…

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider has collected several hundred million cosmic ray events during 2008 and 2009. These data were used to commission the Muon Spectrometer and to study the performance of the trigger and tracking…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The ATLAS Collaboration

In October and November 2008, the CMS collaboration conducted a programme of cosmic ray data taking, which has recorded about 270 million events. The Resistive Plate Chamber system, which is part of the CMS muon detection system, was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

We present the result of a search for correlations in the arrival times of high energy muons collected from 1995 till 2000 with the streamer tube system of the complete MACRO detector at the underground Gran Sasso Lab. Large samples of…