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We explore the sensitivity of directly testing the muon-Higgs coupling at a high-energy muon collider. This is strongly motivated if there exists new physics that is not aligned with the Standard Model Yukawa interactions which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-05 Jürgen Reuter , Tao Han , Wolfgang Kilian , Nils Kreher , Yang Ma , Tobias Striegl , Keping Xie

The MUSE experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute will perform the first measurement of low-energy muon-proton elastic scattering (muon lab momenta 115-210 MeV) with the aim of determining the proton charge radius. We study the prospects for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-05 F. Gil-Domínguez , J. M. Alarcón , C. Weiss

"Soft" muons with a transverse momentum below 10 GeV are featured in many processes studied by the CMS experiment, such as decays of heavy-flavor hadrons or rare tau lepton decays. Maximizing the selection efficiency for these muons, while…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-22 CMS Collaboration

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon displays a $4.2\sigma$ tension with the Standard-Model prediction, if $e^+e^-\to \text{hadrons}$ data are used for hadronic vacuum polarization. In these proceedings we review possible explanations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Andreas Crivellin , Martin Hoferichter

A magnetic detector such as MINOS which is measuring the sign of muons has to deal with issues of bending, which depend on the magnetic field configuration, and multiple scattering, which depends on the amount of material which is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-06-06 Maury Goodman

The CMS detector at the LHC has recorded events from proton-proton collisions, with muon momenta reaching up to 1.8 TeV in the collected dimuon samples. These high-momentum muons allow direct access to new regimes in physics beyond the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-04 CMS Collaboration

In the Littlest Higgs model, we comprehensively study the phenomenology of the heavy photon A_H which is lightest, in most of the parameter space, among newly introduced heavy gauge bosons and top-like vector quark. Unexpected behavior is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-10 Seong Chan Park , Jeonghyeon Song

In both particle physics and cosmic ray muon applications, a high-resolution muon momentum measurement capability plays a significant role not only in providing valuable information on the properties of subatomic particles but also in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-25 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

A method is described for estimating muon track momentum from the distribution of hits along tracks in dense calorimeters due to multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS). The method requires only well-aligned conventional drift chambers or similar…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Bolton

Precision measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon depend on the correct collective mode assignment of the coherent betatron oscillations in the beam. Presently, there is a disagreement between experiment and theory for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom

The ATLAS experiment identifies and reconstructs muons with two high precision tracking systems, the Inner Detector and the Muon Spectrometer, which provide independent measurements of the muon momentum. This paper summarizes the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Maximilian Goblirsch-Kolb

The recently reported measurement of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment differs from the standard model prediction by 2.6 standard deviations. We examine the implications of this discrepancy for supersymmetry. Deviations of the reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Jonathan L. Feng , Konstantin T. Matchev

A recent measurement by the D0 Collaboration, of the charge asymmetry of muons in $W\rightarrow\mu\nu$ events is discussed. Using 4.9 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the D0 detector, the muon charge asymmetry, $A(\eta)$, where $\eta$ is the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-06-04 Mika Vesterinen

The difference between the updated experimental result on the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment and the corresponding theoretical prediction of the standard model on that is about $4.2$ standard deviations. In this work, we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-31 Jin-Lei Yang , Hai-Bin Zhang , Chang-Xin Liu , Xing-Xing Dong , Tai-Fu Feng

The spin dynamics in constant electromagnetic fields is described by the Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi equation which can be upgraded with anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments. The upgraded equation remains self-consistent,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-18 V. G. Baryshevsky , P. I. Porshnev

The magnetized MINOS near detector can accurately determine the charge sign of atmospheric muons, this facilitates a measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio. To reduce the systematic error associated with geometric bias and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 J. K. de Jong

Recent measurements of the proton radius using the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen are troublingly discrepant with values extracted from hydrogen spectroscopy and electron-proton scattering experiments. This discrepancy, which differs by more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-08 Yu-Sheng Liu

The muon anomalous magnetic moment is one of the most precisely measured quantities in particle physics. Recent high precision measurements (0.54ppm) at Brookhaven reveal a ``discrepancy'' by 3 standard deviations from the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 F. Jegerlehner

The dominant theoretical uncertainties in both, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the value of the electromagnetic coupling at the Z scale arise from their hadronic contributions. Since these will ultimately dominate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jens Erler , Mingxing Luo

The muon anomalous magnetic moment is investigated in the standard model with two Higgs doublets (S2HDM) motivated from spontaneous CP violation. Thus all the effective Yukawa couplings become complex. As a consequence of the non-zero phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou