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The MiniBooNE (Booster Neutrino Experiment) experiment is a precise search for neutrino oscillations but is crucially sensitive to background processes that would mimic an oscillation signal. The background sources include intrinsic…

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With the recently emerging global interest in building a next generation of circular electron-positron colliders to study the properties of the Higgs boson, and other important topics in particle physics at ultra-high beam energies, it is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Zhe Duan , Mei Bai , Desmond P. Barber , Qing Qin

Computational physics is an important tool for analysing, verifying, and -- at times -- replacing physical experiments. Nevertheless, simulating quantum systems and analysing quantum data has so far resisted an efficient classical treatment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sam McArdle

Perturbo is a software package for first-principles calculations of charge transport and ultrafast carrier dynamics in materials. The current version focuses on electron-phonon interactions and can compute phonon-limited transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-28 Jin-Jian Zhou , Jinsoo Park , I-Te Lu , Ivan Maliyov , Xiao Tong , Marco Bernardi

The features of the HEMAS code are presented. The results of the comparison between the Monte Carlo expectation and the experimental data are shown.

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Scapparone

We discuss the architecture and design principles that underpin the latest version of SKIRT, a state-of-the-art open source code for simulating continuum radiation transfer in dusty astrophysical systems, such as spiral galaxies and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Peter Camps , Maarten Baes

Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling, based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (norm-conserving, ultrasoft, and…

Atmospheric muons are important probes for studying primary cosmic rays and extensive air showers. Additionally, they constitute a significant background for many underground and deep-sea neutrino experiments, such as TRopIcal DEep-sea…

The high computational complexity of the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is mainly caused by the subspace decomposition and spectrum search, especially for frequent real-time applications or massive sensors. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Yiming Fang , Li Chen , Ang Chen , Weidong Wang

Muons are the most penetrating radiographic probe that exists today. These elementary particles possess a unique combination of physical properties that allows them to pass through dense, heavily shielded objects that are opaque to typical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-22 J. Matthew Durham

Muon radiography is an imaging technique based on muon absorption in matter that allows measurement of internal details in hidden objects or structures. This technique relies on measuring cosmic-ray muons tracks accurately, which reflects…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-23 Yu Wang , Shubin Liu , Zhihang Yao , Yulin Liu , Zhiyong Zhang , Zhengyang He , Ziwen Pan , Changqing Feng

A recently proposed experiment, MUonE, aims to extract the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon g-2 from muon-electron scattering at low energy. The extrapolation requires that both experimental and theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-13 Marco Rocco

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

The muon spin relaxation method ({\mu}SR) is a powerful microscopic tool to probe electronic states of materials observing local magnetic field distributions on the muon. It often happens that a distribution of local magnetic fields shows…

Solid materials may appear static, but at the atomic scale they are in constant vibrational motion. These vibrations, described by phonons, govern many key material properties, including structural stability, mechanical strength, optical…

The aim of the paper is to investigate possibility of utilizing a shallow underground laboratory for the study of energy dependent solar modulation process and to find an optimum detector configuration sensitive to primaries of widest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Nikola Veselinović , Aleksandar Dragić , Mihailo Savić , Dimitrije Maletić , Dejan Joković , Radomir Banjanac , Vladimir Udovičić

Modern cosmic ray experiments consisting of large array of particle detectors measure the signals of electromagnetic or muon components or their combination. The correction for an amount of atmosphere passed is applied to the surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Vicha , P. Travnicek , D. Nosek , J. Ebr

For most physical processes the tracks observed in the muon stations must be matched with the corresponding tracks in the inner tracker, the external muon system providing muon identification and triggering but the tracker points giving the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Benvenuti , D. Denegri , V. Genchev , A. Khanov , N. Stepanov , P. Vankov

A muon collider is expected to produce a high intensity neutrino beam which is an admixture of either $\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu_e}$ or $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} +\nu_e$ which can can be directed to underground detectors far away from the source. It will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. N. Mohapatra

Muons have a similar latency/energy correlation from pion decay as do the neutrinos, and hence in each time-slice in a stroboscopic analysis measurements of their momentum spectra can reduce systematic uncertainties due to flux. There are,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-20 Henry J. Frisch