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We have examined the physics and the experimental feasibility at the AGS of various kaon decay processes in which the polarization of a muon in the final state is measured. Valuable information on CP violation, the CKM matrix or new physics…

We discuss prospects of deep inelastic scattering physics capabilities at the future muon collider facility. In addition to mu^+ mu^- collider itself, the facility provides other possibilities. Among the possibilities, we present…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Yu

The impact of new physics on the interactions of neutrinos with other particles can be parametrized by a set of effective four-fermion operators called non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs). This NSI framework is useful for studying the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Ayres Freitas , Matthew Low

Cosmic ray muons have emerged as a non-conventional high-energy radiation probe to monitor dense and large objects. Muons are the most abundant cosmic radiation on Earth, however, their flux at sea level is approximately 10,000 min^-1m^-2…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Proton beam-dump experiments are a high-intensity source of secondary muons and provide an opportunity to probe muon-specific dark sectors. We adopt a simplified-models framework for an exotic light scalar particle coupling predominantly or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Claudia Rella , Babette Döbrich , Tien-Tien Yu

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt is designed to investigate the properties of high-density QCD matter with multi-differential measurements of hadrons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-06-01 Anna Senger , Peter Senger

We propose new concepts for experiments in which intense high energy photon or muon beams are employed parasitically to detect scattering by cosmic heavy weakly interacting dark matter (DM) particles. We show that the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Acar , M. Bashkanov , D. P. Watts

The COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (COMPASS) is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. The two-stage…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Boris Grube

We propose here a set of new methods to directly detect light mass dark matter through its scattering with abundant atmospheric muons or accelerator beams. Firstly, we plan to use the free cosmic-ray muons interacting with dark matter in a…

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…

Precise determinations of the masses of the $W$ boson and of the top quark could stringently test the radiative structure of the Standard Model (SM) or provide evidence for new physics. We analyze the excellent prospects at a muon collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Berger

We propose a new beam dump experiment at a future TeV-scale muon collider. A beam dump would be an economical and effective way to increase the discovery potential of the collider complex in a complementary regime. In this work we consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Cari Cesarotti , Samuel Homiller , Rashmish K. Mishra , Matthew Reece

The 3.6 \sigma discrepancy between the predicted and measured values of the anomalous magnetic moment of positive muons can be explained by the existence of a new dark boson Z_\mu with a mass in the sub-GeV range, which is coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-21 S. N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev

A new fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator is proposed that will use decays of charm mesons to search for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs), which are right-handed partners of the Standard Model neutrinos. The existence of such…

We review the role of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon a_\mu as a powerful probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), taking advantage of the final result of the Fermilab g-2 experiment and the recently updated Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Peter Athron , Kilian Möhling , Dominik Stöckinger , Hyejung Stöckinger-Kim

The recent results on a number of searches performed at Tevatron for new phenomena beyond Standard Model are presented. The topics include the experimental tests of SUSY with mSUGRA and GMSB breaking scenarios. The latest analyses on large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-07 Igor V. Gorelov

In the paper Int.J.Mod.Phys.E 23 (2014) 1450004, the potential of short-baseline experiments was proposed to measure the mass (and parameters of Lorentz-violating effects) of the muon neutrino, where a roughly estimated upper bound of 420…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-03 A. M. Attia , I. G. Márián , B. Ujvári

The performance demands of future particle-physics experiments investigating the high-energy frontier pose a number of new challenges, forcing us to find improved solutions for the detection, identification, and measurement of final-state…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-31 Jan Kieseler , Giles C. Strong , Filippo Chiandotto , Tommaso Dorigo , Lukas Layer

We report on the design and commissioning of a new spectrometer for muon-spin relaxation/rotation studies installed at the Swiss Muon Source (S$\mu$S) of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland). This new instrument is essentially a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 A. Amato , H. Luetkens , K. Sedlak , A. Stoykov , R. Scheuermann , M. Elender , A. Raselli , D. Graf

The electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments (AMM) are measured in experiments and studied in the Standard Model (SM) with the highest precision accessible in particle physics. The comparison of the measured quantity with the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. E. Dorokhov , A. E. Radzhabov , A. S. Zhevlakov