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A new method has been developed to check the correct behaviour of the frontend electronics of the LHCb muon detector. This method is based on the measurement of the electronic noise rate at different thresholds of the frontend…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Anderlini , R. Antunes Nobrega , W. Bonivento , L. Gruber , A. Kashchuk , O. Levitskaya , O. Maev , G. Martellotti , G. Penso , D. Pinci , A. Sarti , B. Schmidt

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

The WILLI detector, built in IFIN-HH Bucharest, in collaboration with KIT Karlsruhe, is a rotatable modular detector for measuring charge ratio for cosmic muons with energy $<$ 1 GeV. It is under construction a mini-array for measuring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-11 B. Mitrica , I. M. Brancus , M. Petcu , A. Saftoiu , G. Toma , M. Duma , H. Rebel , A. Haungs , O. Sima

Neutrino beam with about 300 MeV in energy, high-flux and medium baseline is considered a rational choice for measuring CP violation before the more powerful Neutrino Factory will be built. Following this concept, a unique neutrino beam…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is undergoing a major upgrade with the goal of increasing the luminosity as more statistics are needed for precision measurements. The presented work pertains to the corresponding upgrade of the ALICE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-13 Nathan Boyles , Zinhle Buthelezi , Simon Winberg , Amit Mishra

A high significance observation of two muon signals, the shadow of the sun and moon, have been seen by the \unit[5.4]{kt} MINOS Far Detector, at a depth of \unit[2070]{mwe}. The distribution of angular separation of muons near the moon was…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-10-09 MINOS Collaboration , E. W. Grashorn

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of two general-purpose detectors that reconstruct the products of high energy particle interactions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-01 Tamas Almos Vami

This work presents a proof of concept for MUSIC, a multi-purpose detector conceived for high-precision and ultra-high-energy physics studies in the challenging environment of $\sqrt{s}=10$ TeV muon-antimuon collisions. The detector features…

We present a new three-dimensional Monte-Carlo code MUSIC (MUon SImulation Code) for muon propagation through the rock. All processes of muon interaction with matter with high energy loss (including the knock-on electron production) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Antonioli , C. Ghetti , E. V. Korolkova , V. A. Kudryavtsev , G. Sartorelli

CLIC is a proposed linear $e^+e^-$ collider with center-of-mass energies of up to 3 TeV. Its main objectives are precise top quark, Higgs boson and Beyond Standard Model physics. In addition to spatial resolutions of a few micrometers and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-10 Simon Spannagel

In order to obtain the necessary luminosity with a reasonable amount of beam power, the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) design includes an unprecedented collision beam size of {\sigma} = 1 nm vertically and {\sigma} = 45 nm horizontally.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Yngve Inntjore Levinsen , Barbara Dalena , Rogelio Tomas , Daniel Schulte

Muography is an imaging technique based on attenuation of the directional muon flux traversing geological or anthropic structures. Several simulation frameworks help to perform muography studies by combining specialised codes from the muon…

Extensive air showers produce high-energy muons that can be utilized to probe hadronic interaction models in cosmic ray interactions. Most muons originate from pion and kaon decays, called $\textit{conventional}$ muons, while a smaller…

"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 efficient tagging of individual muons, along with the stability of the involved ultrathin carbon foil, is critical for ensuring fast, reliable and reproducible low-energy muon spin rotation (LE-$\mathrm{\mu}$SR) measurements. At the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-01 Gianluca Janka , Herman Ishchenko , Zaher Salman , Andreas Suter , Thomas Prokscha

Muon storage rings have been proposed for use as a source of high-energy neutrino beams (the Neutrino Factory) and as the basis for a high-energy lepton-antilepton collider (the Muon Collider). The Neutrino Factory is widely believed to be…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 D. M. Kaplan , K. Long

We present a muon capture front-end scheme for muon based applications. In this Front-End design, a proton bunch strikes a target and creates secondary pions that drift into a capture channel, decaying into muons. A series of rf cavities…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Diktys Stratakis , Scott Berg , David Neuffer

Muons have established a unique and pivotal role in both fundamental physics and applied sciences. Given that a typical muon experiment spans roughly ten muon lifetimes, the optimal muon source should operate at around 50\,kHz in pulsed…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Meng Lv , Jiangtao Wang , Kim Siang Khaw

The Compact Linear Collider CLIC is designed to deliver e+e- collisions at a center of mass energy of up to 3 TeV. The detector systems at this collider have to provide highly efficient tracking and excellent jet energy resolution and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-09-16 Frank Simon

This White Paper brings together our previous studies on a Muon Collider (MC) and presents a design concept of the 6 TeV MC optics, the superconducting (SC) magnets, and a preliminary analysis of the protection system to reduce magnet…