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Experiments with muons ($\mu^{+}$) and muonium atoms ($\mu^{+}e^{-}$) offer several promising possibilities for testing fundamental symmetries. Examples of such experiments include search for muon electric dipole moment, measurement of muon…

The Low-Energy Muon beamline (LEM) at the Paul Scherrer Institute currently stands as the world's only facility providing a continuous beam of low-energy muons with keV energies for conducting muon spin rotation experiments on a nanometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-25 Gianluca Janka , Maria Mendes Martins , Xiaojie Ni , Zaher Salman , Andreas Suter , Thomas Prokscha

A high-repetition-rate pulsed muon source operating at approximately 50\,kHz holds the potential to improve the sensitivity of various particle physics and material science experiments involving muons. In this article, we propose utilizing…

The low energy muon spin rotation spectroscopy (LE-$\mu$SR) is primarily used to investigate thin films, surfaces, and interfaces of materials, which has matured at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and is routinely employed by users of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 X. Ni , L. Zhou , M. M. Martins , Z. Salman , A. Suter , T. Prokscha

The Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland operates the high intensity proton accelerator facility HIPA. A 590 MeV kinetic energy proton beam of presently up to 2.4 mA is sent to target stations producing pions, muons and neutrons for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-26 Klaus Kirch

The muEDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute aims to measure the electric dipole moment with an unprecedented sensitivity of $6 \times 10^{-23}\,\mathrm{e}\cdot\mathrm{cm}$. A key aspect of this experiment is the injection and…

The low-energy muon facility at PSI provides nearly fully polarized positive muons with tunable energies in the keV range to carry out muon spin rotation (LE-muSR) experiments with nanometer depth resolution on thin films, heterostructures,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Ran Xiao , Elvezio Morenzoni , Zaher Salman , Bangjiao Ye , Thomas Prokscha

The search for a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the muon is an excellent probe for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. We propose the first dedicated muon EDM search employing the frozen-spin technique at the…

Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) are excellent probes of physics beyond the Standard Model, especially on new sources of CP violation. The muon EDM has recently attracted significant attention due to discrepancies in the magnetic…

We present the upgraded design, construction, and beam test results for the Muon Trigger Detector (MTD) developed for the muon Electric Dipole Moment (muEDM) experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. This experiment…

A new muon beamline, muon science innovative channel (MuSIC), was set up at the Research Centre for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, in Osaka, Japan, using the 392 MeV proton beam impinging on a target. The production of an intense…

The physics potential of an intense source of low-energy muons is studied. Such a source is a necessary stage towards building the neutrino factories and muon colliders which are being considered at present. The CERN Neutrino Factory could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Aysto , A. Baldini , A. Blondel , A. de Gouvea , J. Ellis , W. Fetscher , G. F. Giudice , K. Jungmann , S. Lola , V. Palladino , K. Tobe , A. Vacchi , A. van der Schaaf , K. Zuber

A laser-Compton backscattering beam, which we call a `Laser-Electron Photon' beam, was upgraded at the LEPS beamline of SPring-8. We accomplished the gains in backscattered photon beam intensities by factors of 1.5--1.8 with the injection…

The upgrade of the normal conducting (NC) Radioactive Ion Beam EXperiment (REX)-ISOLDE heavy ion accelerator at CERN, under the High Intensity and Energy (HIE)-ISOLDE framework, proposes the use of superconducting (SC) quarter-wave…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 M. A. Fraser , M. Pasini , R. M. Jones , M. Lindroos

This paper outlines the design and development of a fast front-end electronic readout board for the muon trigger detector in the muEDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The trigger detector, which consists of a gate and aperture…

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab is being designed to study the coherent neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus. This process has an extremely low probability in the Standard Model and its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 V. Pronskikh , D. Glenzinski , N. Mokhov , R. Tschirhart

Meson factories are powerful drivers of diverse physics programmes. With beam powers already in the MW-regime attention has to be turned to target and beam line design to further significantly increase surface muon rates available for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-24 F. Berg , L. Desorgher , A. Fuchs , W. Hajdas , Z. Hodge , P. -R. Kettle , A. Knecht , R. Lüscher , A. Papa , G. Rutar , M. Wohlmuther

Low-energy $\mu$SR (LE-$\mu$SR) enables depth-resolved studies of magnetic and electronic properties from the surface into the near-surface region, but the measured transverse-field asymmetry is not an intrinsic constant and depends on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-14 G. Janka , Z. Salman , A. Suter , T. Prokscha
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