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We outline a plan for final muon ionization cooling with quadrupole doublets focusing onto short absorbers followed by emittance exchange in vacuum to achieve the small transverse beam sizes needed by a muon collider. A flat muon beam with…

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A muon collider would be a powerful tool for exploring the energy-frontier with leptons, and would complement the studies now under way at the LHC. Such a device would offer several important benefits. Muons, like electrons, are point…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-09-15 Michael S. Zisman

The recently proposed MUonE experiment at CERN aims at providing a novel determination of the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering at relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , C. L. Del Pio , F. Piccinini

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

The Mu2e experiment aims to test Charge Lepton Flavour Violation to an unprecedented level, enhancing the current sensitivity by four orders of magnitude for the neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons. A series of graded solenoids…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Giovannella

A muon collider would open new frontiers of investigation in high energy particle physics, allowing precision measurements to be made at the TeV energy frontier. One of the greatest challenges to constructing a muon collider is the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-12-20 Daniel Greenwald , Yu Bao , Allen Caldwell , Daniel Kollar

Increasing interest in energetic particle effects on weather and climate has motivated development of a miniature scintillator-based detector intended for deployment on meteorological radiosondes or unmanned airborne vehicles. The detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-17 Karen L Aplin , Aaron A Briggs , R Giles Harrison , Graeme J Marlton

The central detector in the MuSun experiment is a pad-plane time projection ionization chamber that operates without gas amplification in deuterium at 31 K; it is used to measure the rate of the muon capture process $\mu^- + d \rightarrow n…

The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will search for coherent, neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus, with a sensitivity improvement of a factor of 10^4 over previous experiments. Such a charged lepton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-12 Raffaella Donghia

The ALICE Muon IDentifier is composed of 72 single-gap bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers, which have been operational since 2009 in maxi-avalanche mode (discrimination threshold:7 mV without amplification) with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-21 Alessandro Ferretti

The COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment has started taking physics data with the goal of performing an independent measurement of the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA. A muon detector was constructed by using plastic…

The MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab uses liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology to study neutrino interactions in argon. A fundamental requirement for LArTPCs is to achieve and maintain a low level of electronegative…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 Varuna Meddage

The Muon Campus at Fermilab provides world class accelerator infrastructure supporting the next generation intensity frontier experiments. The anti-proton source from the Tevatron era was converted to the present day Muon Campus at the end…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 S. Ganguly

The magnetised Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL), proposed to be built at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), is designed to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The ICAL detector is optimized to measure the muon momentum, its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Animesh Chatterjee , Meghna K. K. , Kanishka Rawat , Tarak Thakore , Vipin Bhatnagar , R. Gandhi , D. Indumathi , N. K. Mondal , Nita Sinha

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab looks for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) improving by 4 orders of magnitude the current experimental sensitivity for the muon to electron conversion in a muonic atom. A positive signal could not be…

General Fusion is building the Fusion Demonstration Plant to demonstrate a magnetized target fusion scheme in which a deuterium plasma is heated from 200 eV to 10 keV by piston-driven compression of a liquid-lithium liner. The multilayer…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 P. J. F. Carle , F. Retière , A. Sher , R. Underwood , K. Starosta , M. Hildebrand , S. Barsky , S. Howard

ALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions. At forward rapidity a muon spectrometer detects muons from low mass mesons, quarkonia, open heavy-flavor hadrons as well as weak bosons. A muon selection based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Massimiliano Marchisone

The Muon-to-Electron (Mu2e) experiment at Fermilab, will seek the evidence of direct muon to electron conversion at the sensitivity level where it cannot be explained by the Standard Model. An 8-GeV 25-kW proton beam will be directed onto a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 V. S. Pronskikh , V. V. Kashikhin , N. V. Mokhov

The MINOS experiment has used the world's most powerful neutrino beam to make precision neutrino oscillation measurements. By observing the disappearance of muon neutrinos, MINOS has made the world's most precise measurement of the larger…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Justin Evans

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