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A measurement is presented of the flux ratio of positive and negative muons from cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere, using data collected by the CMS detector at ground level and in the underground experimental cavern. The excellent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-22 Lars Sonnenschein

The paper[1] presented a novel muon radiography technique which exploits the multiple Coulomb scattering of these particles for nondestructive inspection without the use of artificial radiation. In this paper, a new kind algorithm named…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-15 Liu Cheng-Ming , Wen Qun-Gang , Zhang Zhi-Yong , Huang Guang-Shun

We estimate the synchrotron radiation of cosmic muons in a uniform magnetic field in the $\mu$eV-to-meV energy scale. Such events can potentially bring backgrounds to the axion dark matter searches. The GEANT4 software package is utilized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-07 Dan Zhang , Gray Rybka , Edward J. Daw , Robyn Evren

We have studied the dependence of the allowed space of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters on the time of exposure for a magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abhijit Samanta , Sudeb Bhattacharya , Ambar Ghosal , Kamales Kar , Debasish Majumdar , Amitava Raychaudhuri

Our study exploits the Constant Intensity Cut principles applied simultaneously to muonic and electromagnetic detectors of cosmic rays. We use the fact that the ordering of events according to their signal sizes induced in different types…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-22 Jakub Vicha , Dalibor Nosek , Petr Travnicek , Jan Ebr

This paper describes a new measurement of the flux ratio of positive and negative muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere, using data collected by the CMS detector at ground level and in the underground experimental cavern. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-10-07 Gavin Hesketh

We evaluate the neutron and muon fluxes produced in the ILC beam dumps by Monte Carlo simulations and discuss their potential use in irradiation fields. We show that the beam dumps can provide high-intensity neutron and muon fluxes with…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Yasuhito Sakaki , Shinichiro Michizono , Nobuhiro Terunuma , Toshiya Sanami

We present results demonstrating the time resolution and $\mu$/e separation capabilities with a new concept of an EAS detector capable for measurements of cosmic rays arriving with large zenith angles. This kind of detector has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Iori , H. Denizli , A. Yilmaz , F. Ferrarotto , J. Russ

The magnetized Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL) which is proposed to be built in the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) laboratory, aims to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations primarily through charged current interactions of muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Kanishka , Meghna K. K. , Vipin Bhatnagar , D. Indumathi , Nita Sinha

Conceiving the possibility of using plastic scintillator bars as robust detectors for antineutrino detection for the remote reactor monitoring and nuclear safeguard application we study expected basic performance by Monte Carlo simulation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-20 A. Sh. Georgadze , V. M. Pavlovych , O. A. Ponkratenko , D. A. Litvinov

A dedicated cosmic muon Monte-Carlo event generator CMSCGEN has been developed for the CMS experiment. The simulation relies on parameterisations of the muon energy and the incidence angle, based on measured and simulated data of the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-05 Lars Sonnenschein

A Cosmic Muon Veto (CMV) detector using extruded plastic scintillators is being designed around the mini-Iron Calorimeter (mini-ICAL) detector at the transit campus of the India based Neutrino Observatory, Madurai for the feasibility study…

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

A fair knowledge of the atmospheric muon distributions at Earth is a prerequisite for the simulations of cosmic ray setups and rare event search detectors. A modified power law is proposed for atmospheric muon energy distribution which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-01 Prashant Shukla , Sundaresh Sankrith

We present a method to measure the integral vertical intensity and angular distribution of atmospheric muons using a stationary thick plastic scintillator bar detector with PMTs at both of its ends over exposures of a few hours in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-24 Bryan Olmos Yáñez , Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo

The KM3NeT Collaboration has successfully deployed the first detection units of the next generation undersea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea at the two sites in Italy and in France. The data sample collected between December…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-11 Piotr Kalaczyński

The COMET Phase-$\alpha$ experiment aims to evaluate the novel muon transport beamline for the muon-to-electron conversion search at J-PARC, Japan. A dedicated Range Counter (RC) was developed to measure the momentum spectrum of transported…

The COMPASS experiment makes use of the CERN SPS high-intensitymuon and hadron beams for the investigation of the nucleon spin structure and the spectroscopy of hadrons. One or more outgoing particles are detected in coincidence with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 COMPASS Collaboration , P. Abbon

Cosmic-rays with energies up to $3\times10^{20}$ eV have been observed. The nuclear composition of these cosmic rays is unknown but if the incident nuclei are protons then the corresponding center of mass energy is $\sqrt{s_{nn}} = 700$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Spencer R. Klein

The recent observations of muon charge ratio up to about 10 TeV and of atmospheric neutrinos up to energies of about 400 TeV has triggered a renewed interest into the high-energy interaction models and cosmic ray primary composition. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-23 Anatoli Fedynitch , Julia Becker Tjus , Paolo Desiati