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A muon collider represents the ideal machine to reach very high center-of-mass energies and luminosities by colliding elementary particles. This is the result of the low level of beamstrahlung and synchrotron radiation compared to linear or…

Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low $Z$ materials made in the MuScat experiment showed that theoretical models and simulation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Bogomilov , R. Tsenov , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. P. Song , J. Y. Tang , Z. H. Li , R. Bertoni , M. Bonesini , F. Chignoli , R. Mazza , V. Palladino , A. de Bari , D. Orestano , L. Tortora , Y. Kuno , H. Sakamoto , A. Sato , S. Ishimoto , M. Chung , C. K. Sung , F. Filthaut , M. Fedorov , D. Jokovic , D. Maletic , M. Savic , N. Jovancevic , J. Nikolov , M. Vretenar , S. Ramberger , R. Asfandiyarov , A. Blondel , F. Drielsma , Y. Karadzhov , G. Charnley , N. Collomb , K. Dumbell , A. Gallagher , A. Grant , S. Griffiths , T. Hartnett , B. Martlew , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , A. Oates , P. Owens , G. Stokes , P. Warburton , C. White , D. Adams , V. Bayliss , J. Boehm , T. W. Bradshaw , C. Brown , M. Courthold , J. Govans , M. Hills , J. -B. Lagrange , C. Macwaters , A. Nichols , R. Preece , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , T. Stanley , J. Tarrant , M. Tucker , S. Watson , A. Wilson , R. Bayes , J. C. Nugent , F. J. P. Soler , R. Gamet , P. Cooke , V. J. Blackmore , D. Colling , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , P. Franchini , C. Hunt , P. B. Jurj , A. Kurup , K. Long , J. Martyniak , S. Middleton , J. Pasternak , M. A. Uchida , J. H. Cobb , C. N. Booth , P. Hodgson , J. Langlands , E. Overton , V. Pec , P. J. Smith , S. Wilbur , G. T. Chatzitheodoridis , A. J. Dick , K. Ronald , C. G. Whyte , A. R. Young , S. Boyd , J. R. Greis , T. Lord , C. Pidcott , I. Taylor , M. Ellis , R. B. S. Gardener , P. Kyberd , J. J. Nebrensky , M. Palmer , H. Witte , D. Adey , A. D. Bross , D. Bowring , P. Hanlet , A. Liu , D. Neuffer , M. Popovic , P. Rubinov , A. DeMello , S. Gourlay , A. Lambert , D. Li , T. Luo , S. Prestemon , S. Virostek , B. Freemire , D. M. Kaplan , T. A. Mohayai , D. Rajaram , P. Snopok , Y. Torun , L. M. Cremaldi , D. A. Sanders , D. J. Summers , L. R. Coney , G. G. Hanson , C. Heidt

New physics can be searched for in deep inelastic scattering experiments. New phenomena, like additional production mechanisms for heavy quarks, manifest themselves through production and decays of short-lived hadrons, which give additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Thunman

In the case of underground experiments for neutrino physics or rare event searches, the background caused by cosmic muons contributes significantly and therefore must be identified and rejected. We proposed and optimized a new detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-05 Y. P. Zhang , J. L. Xu , H. Q. Lu , P. Zhang , C. C. Zhang , C. G. Yang

Experimental activities involving multi-TeV muon collisions are a relatively recent endeavor. The community has limited experience in designing detectors for lepton interactions at center-of-mass energies of 10 TeV and beyond. This review…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-08 Massimo Casarsa , Donatella Lucchesi , Lorenzo Sestini

In 1974, Nelson, Kase, and Svenson published an experimental investigation on muon shielding using the SLAC high energy LINAC. They measured muon fluence and absorbed dose induced by a 18 GeV electron beam hitting a copper/water beam dump…

At muon colliders, muon decays naturally produce intense electrons and positrons with unique features, namely high energies, high repetition rates, and small intrinsic uncertainties, that are unavailable at existing accelerator facilities.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Yasuhito Sakaki , Daiki Ueda

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment is a general purpose particle detector experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In 2008, the LHC beam was commissioned and successfully steered through the CMS detector. First…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Toyoko J. Orimoto

The iron calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) will be used to measure neutrino mass hierarchy. The magnet in the ICAL detector will be used to distinguish the {\mu^-} and {\mu^+} events induced by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-04 S. P. Behera , M. S. Bhatia , V. M. Datar , A. K. Mohanty

Neutrons produced by cosmic muon interactions are important contributors to backgrounds in underground detectors when searching for rare events. Typically such neutrons can dominate the background, as they are particularly difficult to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A Empl , E. V. Hungerford , R. Jasim , P. Mosteiro

ALICE, a general purpose experiment designed to investigate nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has also been used to detect atmospheric muons produced by cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Mario Sitta

The deleterious effects of the background and radiation environment produced by the decaying muon beam are studied in the Muon Collider Interaction Region, detector and Machine-Detector Interface designs.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 Nikolai V. Mokhov

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a concept for a future $e^{+}e^{-}$ linear collider with a center-of-mass energy of up to 3 TeV. The design of a CLIC experiment is driven by the requirements related to the physics goals, as well as by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-13 Christian Grefe

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

The magnetised Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL), proposed to be built at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), is designed to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The ICAL detector is optimized to measure the muon momentum, its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Animesh Chatterjee , Meghna K. K. , Kanishka Rawat , Tarak Thakore , Vipin Bhatnagar , R. Gandhi , D. Indumathi , N. K. Mondal , Nita Sinha

The proposed magnetized Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL) to be built in the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) laboratory aims to study atmospheric neutrinos and its properties such as precision measurements of oscillation parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 R. Kanishka , D. Indumathi , Lakshmi S. Mohan , V. Bhatnagar

This article gives a point of view on the studies of the muon-induced background for the underground experiments using a liquid scintillator detectors. The results obtained are in good agreement with the data, especially for the neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-17 Karim Zbiri

This paper investigates the possibility of Dark Matter (DM) fermions production alongside a gauge boson (A$^{\prime}$) using a model based on Einstein-Cartan gravity in an electron-positron linear collider, such as the ILC, that operates at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-09 Hossam Taha , El-sayed A. El-dahshan , S. Elgammal

Cosmic muon interactions are important contributors to backgrounds in underground detectors when searching for rare events. Typically neutrons dominate this background as they are particularly difficult to shield and detect in a veto…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-10 A. Empl , R. Jasim , E. Hungerford , P. Mosteiro