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Renewed international interest in muon colliders motivates the continued investigation of the impacts of beam-induced background on detector performance. This continues the effort initiated by the Muon Accelerator Program and carried out…

Cosmic ray muons enable non-invasive imaging of dense structures through multipleCoulomb scattering (MCS), with scattering angles dependent on atomic number (Z). Traditional algorithms like Point of Closest Approach (PoCA) assume single…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Reshma Ughade , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Muon imaging has recently emerged as a powerful method to complement standard geophysical tools in the understanding of the Earth's subsurface. Muon measurements can yield a radiography of the average density along the muon path, allowing…

Radioactivity induced by cosmic muon spallation is a dominant source of backgrounds for $\mathcal{O}(10)~$MeV neutrino interactions in water Cherenkov detectors. In particular, it is crucial to reduce backgrounds to measure the solar…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-02 Kamiokande Collaboration , S. Locke , A. Coffani , K. Abe , C. Bronner , Y. Hayato , M. Ikeda , S. Imaizumi , H. Ito , J. Kameda , Y. Kataoka , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , Y. Nagao , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakajima , S. Nakayama , T. Okada , K. Okamoto , A. Orii , G. Pronost , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Sonoda , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , Y. Takemoto , A. Takenaka , H. Tanaka , T. Yano , K. Hirade , Y. Kanemura , S. Miki , S. Watabe , S. Han , T. Kajita , K. Okumura , T. Tashiro , J. Xia , X. Wang , G. D. Megias , D. Bravo-Berguño , L. Labarga , Ll. Marti , B. Zaldivar , B. W. Pointon , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. Wan , T. Wester , J. Bian , N. J. Griskevich , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , A. Yankelevic , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , V. Takhistov , J. Hill , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. G. Park , B. Bodur , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , L. Bernard , O. Drapier , S. El Hedri , A. Giampaolo , M. Gonin , Th. A. Mueller , P. Paganini , B. Quilain , A. D. Santos , T. Ishizuka , T. Nakamura , J. S. Jang , J. G. Learned , L. H. V. Anthony , A. A. Sztuc , Y. Uchida , D. Martin , M. Scott , V. Berardi , M. G. Catanesi , E. Radicioni , N. F. Calabria , L. N. Machado , G. De Rosa , G. Collazuol , F. Iacob , M. Lamoureux , N. Ospina , M. Mattiazzi , L. Ludovici , Y. Nishimura , Y. Maewaka , S. Cao , M. Friend , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Kobayashi , M. Jakkapu , T. Matsubara , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , Y. Nakano , T. Shiozawa , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamamoto , Y. Kotsar , H. Ozaki , A. Ali , Y. Ashida , J. Feng , S. Hirota , A. K. Ichikawa , T. Kikawa , M. Mori , T. Nakaya , R. A. Wendell , K. Yasutome , P. Fernandez , N. McCauley , P. Mehta , K. M. Tsui , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , H. Menjo , T. Niwa , K. Sato , M. Tsukada , P. Mijakowski , J. Lagoda , S. M. Lakshmi , J. Zalipska , C. K. Jung , C. Vilela , M. J. Wilking , C. Yanagisawa , J. Jiang , K. Hagiwara , M. Harada , T. Horai , H. Ishino , S. Ito , Y. Koshio , W. Ma , N. Piplani , S. Sakai , H. Kitagawa , G. Barr , D. Barrow , L. Cook , A. Goldsack , S. Samani , D. Wark , F. Nova , T. Boschi , F. Di Lodovico , M. Taani , S. Zsoldos , J. Gao , J. Migenda , J. Y. Yang , S. J. Jenkins , M. Malek , J. M. McElwee , O. Stone , M. D. Thiesse , L. F. Thompson , H. Okazawa , K. Nakamura , S. B. Kim , I. Yu , J. W. Seo , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , K. Iwamoto , N. Ogawa , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , M. R. Vagins , K. Nakagiri , M. Kuze , S. Izumiyama , T. Yoshida , M. Inomoto , M. Ishitsuka , R. Matsumoto , K. Ohta , M. Shinoki , T. Suganuma , T. Kinoshita , J. F. Martin , H. A. Tanaka , T. Towstego , R. Akutsu , M. Hartz , A. Konaka , P. de Perio , N. W. Prouse , S. Chen , B. D. Xu , Y. Zhang , M. Posiadala-Zezula , B. Richards , B. Jamieson , J. Walker , A. Minamino , K. Okamoto , G. Pintaudi , R. Sasaki

Forecast of the atmospheric parameters and optical turbulence applied to the ground-based astronomy is very crucial mainly for the queue scheduling. So far, most efforts have been addressed by our group in developing algorithms for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-22 G. Martelloni , E. Masciadri , A. Turchi

Borexino, a liquid scintillator detector at LNGS, is designed for the detection of neutrinos and antineutrinos from the Sun, supernovae, nuclear reactors, and the Earth. The feeble nature of these signals requires a strong suppression of…

Cosmic-ray muons which impinge upon the Earth's surface can be used to image the density of geological and man-made materials located above a muon detector. The detectors used for these measurements must be capable of determining the muon…

We present a statistical framework to compare spectral-line data cubes of molecular clouds and use the framework to perform an analysis of various statistical tools developed from methods proposed in the literature. We test whether our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Eric W. Koch , Caleb G. Ward , Stella Offner , Jason L. Loeppky , Erik W. Rosolowsky

Production of high-energy muons in cosmic-ray air showers, relevant for underground detectors, depends on the properties of the primary cosmic ray as well as the atmospheric temperature through the competition between decay and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-26 Stef Verpoest , Thomas K. Gaisser

Muon radiography is a promising technique to image the internal density structures upto a few hundred meters scale, such as tunnels, pyramids and volcanos, by measuring the flux attenuation of cosmic ray muons after trvaling through these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-29 Y. Cheng , R. Han , Z. Li , J. Li , J. Li , W. Gu , X. Yang , X. Ouyang , B. Liao

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, comprises a surface component, IceTop, and an optical in-ice array. This unique com\-bi\-na\-tion allows for coincident measurements of low-energy ($\sim \rm{GeV}$) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Mark Weyrauch

This paper presents a new methodology that provides the analysis of surface texture changes in areas adjacent to the volcano and its impact product of volcanic activity. To do this, algorithms from digital image processing such as the…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-05-26 L. Fernandez , G. Alvarez , R. Salinas

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3 m.w.e., muon-induced backgrounds are expected to be one of the…

Large underwater telescopes have been proposed as a challenging method to measure high energy neutrinos from astrophysical objects. In recent years, The Antares collaboration has designed and realized the first detector of this type in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 K. Gracheva , M. Anghinolfi , V. Kulikovskiy , E. Shirokov , Y. Yakovenko

Most cosmic-ray air shower arrays have focused on detecting electromagnetic shower particles and low energy muons. A few groups (most notably MACRO + EASTOP and SPASE + AMANDA) have studied the high energy muon component of showers.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Spencer R. Klein

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 IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the Geographic South Pole. For every observed neutrino event, there are over $10^6$ background events caused by cosmic ray air shower muons. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-10 Kevin Meagher , Jakob van Santen

Deflection of light along the optical path is a major source of image degradation for ground-based telescopes. Methods have been developed to measure upper atmospheric seeing based on models of the turbulence in the atmosphere, but due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Meghan A. Marangola , Elana K. Urbach , Christopher W. Stubbs