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We review the latest experimental achievements on the hadronic cross section measurements at low energy which are of fundamental importance for a precise evaluation of the hadronic contribution to the g-2 of the muon. We also discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Venanzoni

We describe the development and testing of a novel beam stop for use in a rare kaon decay experiment at the Brookhaven AGS. The beam stop is located inside a dipole spectrometer magnet in close proximity to straw drift chambers and…

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may explain the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly. We applied this idea to SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , Yi-Ming Zhong

In both particle physics and 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 improving the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-10 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

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

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Tommaso Dorigo , Jan Kieseler , Lukas Layer , Giles Strong

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

The search for axion-like particles $X$ in muon decays is an excellent opportunity for the MEG II and Mu3e experiments to extend their horizons beyond $\mu^+ \to e^+ \gamma$ and $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^- e^+$. A suitable process for both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-01 A. Gurgone

We investigate the potential of short-baseline experiments in order to measure the dispersion relation of the (muon) neutrino, with a prospect of eventually measuring the neutrino mass. As a byproduct, the experiment would help to constrain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-27 U. D. Jentschura , D. Horvath , S. Nagy , I. Nandori , Z. Trocsanyi , B. Ujvari

The Muon Scattering Experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut uses a mixed beam of electrons, muons, and pions, necessitating precise timing to identify the beam particles and reactions they cause. We describe the design and performance of…

The MuCap experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute has measured the rate L_S of muon capture from the singlet state of the muonic hydrogen atom to a precision of 1%. A muon beam was stopped in a time projection chamber filled with 10-bar,…

The neutral Higgs boson is expected to have a mass in the region 90-150 GeV in various schemes within the Minimal Supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model. A first generation Muon Collider is uniquely suited to investigate the mass,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Rajendran Raja , Alvin Tollestrup

The MUon Scattering Experiment (MUSE) was motivated by the proton radius puzzle arising from the discrepancy between muonic hydrogen spectroscopy and electron-proton measurements. The MUSE physics goals also include testing lepton…

MUonE is a proposed experiment designed to measure the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to muon $g-2$ through elastic $\mu-e$ scattering. As such it employs an extremely high-resolution tracking apparatus. We point out that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Iftah Galon , David Shih , Isaac R. Wang

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

A number of recent developments have led to simulations of an inverse cyclotron for cooling intense muon beams for neutrino factories and muon colliders. Such a device could potentially act as a novel beam cooling mechanism for muons, and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Kevin Paul , Estelle Cormier-Michel , Terrence Hart , Donald Summers

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

I describe the new generation of muon-to-electron conversion experiments, COMET and Mu2e, being constructed to make use of new high power pulsed muon beams a J-PARC and Fermilab respectively. A brief overview of the physics explored by the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-04 R. P. Litchfield

We propose a muon-proton collider with asymmetrical multi-TeV beam energies and integrated luminosities of $0.1-1$ ab$^{-1}$. With its large center-of-mass energies and yet small Standard Model background, such a machine can not only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Kingman Cheung , Zeren Simon Wang

The MEG II experiment at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland aims to achieve a sensitivity of $6\times10^{-14}$ on the charged lepton flavor violating decay $\mu^+\to e^+\gamma$. The current upper limit on this decay is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-21 Manuel Meucci