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The muon spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment is one of the largest detectors ever built. At the LHC, new physics signs could appear through high momentun muons (1 TeV). Identification and precise momentum measurement of such muons are two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-10 F. Chevallier

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general purpose detector, designed to run at the highest luminosity at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its distinctive features include a 4 T superconducting solenoid with 6-m-diameter by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-02 V. I. Klyukhin , N. Amapane , A. Ball , B. Curé , A. Gaddi , H. Gerwig , M. Mulders , V. Calvelli , A. Hervé , R. Loveless

The KM3NeT research infrastructure instruments a large volume of seawater using photomultiplier tubes, which are sensitive to the Cherenkov radiation stimulated by the products of neutrino interactions in the water, as well as that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-04 Brían Ó Fearraigh

The rate of low energy (< 150 MeV) cosmic ray muons was measured at ground level as a function of several atmospheric parameters. Stopped muons were detected in a plastic scintillator block and correlations were determined using a linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 Greg Bernero , Jacob Olitsky , Reinhard A. Schumacher

Muon tomography (MT), based on atmospheric cosmic rays, is a promising technique suitable for nondestructive imaging of the internal structures of mountains. This method uses the measured flux distribution after attenuation, combined with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-27 Bin Zhang , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

This paper describes a new method for momentum reconstruction of charged particles using multiple Coulomb scatterings in a nuclear emulsion detector with a layered structure of nuclear emulsion films and target materials. The method…

Highly energetic, cosmic-ray muons can easily penetrate a dry storage cask and yield information about the material inside it by making use of the physics of multiple Coulomb scattering. Work by others has shown this information may be used…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-01 Zhengzhi Liu , Jason Hayward , Can Liao , Haori Yang

Cosmic-ray muon imaging provides a non-destructive inspection technique, yet achieving millimeter-resolution imaging within practical timeframes remains challenging. Here we introduce Projection-shifted MUon transMission tomogrAghy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-24 Zibo Qin , Rongfeng Zhang , Pei Yu , Cheng-en Liu , Liangwen Chen , Feng Zhang , Zaihong Yang , Qite Li , Qiang Li

Cosmic rays are charged particles whose flux observed at Earth shows temporal variations related to space weather phenomena and may be an important tool to study them. The cosmic ray intensity recorded with ground-based detectors also shows…

We present a new measurement of atmospheric muons made during an ascent of the High Energy Antimatter Telescope balloon experiment. The muon charge ratio mu+/mu- as a function of atmospheric depth in the momentum interval 0.3-0.9 GeV/c is…

IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube detector, has been used to measure the energy spectrum of cosmic ray primaries in the range between 1.58 PeV and 1.26 EeV. It can also be used to study the low energy muons in air showers by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Javier G. Gonzalez

Cosmic muons are highly energetic and penetrative particles and these figures are used for imaging of large and dense objects such as spent nuclear fuels in casks and special nuclear materials in cargo. Cosmic muon intensity depends on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-28 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis , Robert Bean

The European collaboration ANTARES aims to operate a large neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea, 2400 m deep, 40 km from Toulon (France). Muon neutrinos are detected through the muon produced in charged current interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain Romeyer , Juan De Dios Zornoza Gomez , Ronald Bruijn

High-energy muons generated from cosmic-ray particle showers have been shown to exhibit properties ideal for imaging the interior of large structures. This paper explores the possibility of using a single portable muon detector in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-06 K. Boniface , V. N. P. Anghel , A. Erlandson , G. Jonkmans , M. Thompson , S. Livingstone

Muons can be identified with high efficiency and purity and reconstructed with high precision is a detector with a dual readout calorimeter and a dual solenoid to return the flux without iron. We shown CERN test beam data for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 John Hauptman

Research on a large-area, cost-effective Muon Telescope Detector has been carried out for RHIC and for next generation detectors at future QCD Lab. We utilize state-of-the-art multi-gap resistive plate chambers with large modules and long…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Lijuan Ruan

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

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

The accurate determination of the elemental composition of cosmic rays at high energies is expected to provide crucial clues on the origin of these particles. Previous direct measurements of composition have been limited by experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 D. B. Kieda , S. P. Swordy , S. P. Wakely

Atmospheric muons are important probes for studying primary cosmic rays and extensive air showers. Additionally, they constitute a significant background for many underground and deep-sea neutrino experiments, such as TRopIcal DEep-sea…