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In this study, we exhibit a number elementary strategies that might be at disposal in diverse computational applications in the GEANT4 simulations with the purpose of hemispherical particle sources. To further detail, we initially generate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 Ahmet Ilker Topuz , Madis Kiisk , Andrea Giammanco

In this study, by attempting to eliminate the disadvantageous complexity of the existing particle generators, we present a discrete probabilistic scheme adapted for the discrete energy spectra in the GEANT4 simulations. In our multi-binned…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Ahmet Ilker Topuz , Madis Kiisk

In muon scattering tomography, the investigated materials are discriminated according to the scattering angle that mainly depends on the atomic number, the density, and the thickness of the medium at a given energy value. The scattering…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-09 Ahmet Ilker Topuz , Madis Kiisk , Andrea Giammanco , Mart Magi

In this study, by attempting to resolve the angular complication during the particle generation for the muon tomography applications in the GEANT4 simulations, we exhibit an unconventional methodology that is hinged on the direction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Ahmet Ilker Topuz , Madis Kiisk , Andrea Giammanco

The angular deviation commonly represented by the scattering angle generally serves to provide the characteristic discrimination in the muon scattering tomography. The regular procedure to determine the scattering angle comprises the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-01 Ahmet Ilker Topuz , Madis Kiisk , Andrea Giammanco , Mart Magi

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

I present a scheme to obtain a 2 to 40 GeV low emittance muon beam, not requiring cooling and within today's technological resources, to be used for early commissioning of muon accelerator projects, or alternatively dedicated muon and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 O. R. Blanco Garcia

We present the detection of directional muon beams produced using a PW laser at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The muon source is a multi-GeV electron beam generated in a 30 cm laser plasma accelerator interacting with a high-Z…

One of the challenge of future muon colliders is the production of muon beams carrying high phase space densities. In particular the muon beam normalised transverse emittance is a relevant figure of merit to meet luminosity requests. A…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 C. Curatolo , L. Serafini

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 average deflection angle of the tracked muons in the muon scattering tomography exponentially declines in function of the initial kinetic energy, the angular dependence of which provides an opportunity to set out a binary relation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-28 Ahmet Ilker Topuz , Madis Kiisk , Andrea Giammanco , Mart Magi

A new scheme to produce very low emittance muon beams using a positron beam of about 45~GeV interacting on electrons on target is presented. One of the innovative topics to be investigated is the behaviour of the positron beam stored in a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Boscolo , M. Antonelli , O. R. Blanco-Garcia , S. Guiducci , S. Liuzzo , P. Raimondi , F. Collamati

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

Muon beams are customarily obtained via $K/\pi$ decays produced in proton interaction on target. In this paper we investigate the possibility to produce low emittance muon beams from electron-positron collisions at centre-of-mass energy…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 M. Antonelli , M. Boscolo , R. Di Nardo , P. Raimondi

Muons interact with matter via two major interaction mechanisms: ionization and radioactive process, and multiple Coulomb scattering leading to energy loss and trajectory deflection, respectively. For a monoenergetic muon beam crossing an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-24 Zhengzhi Liu

The relative immunity of muons to synchrotron radiation suggests that they might be used in place of electrons as probes in fundamental high-energy physics experiments. Muons are commonly produced indirectly through pion decay by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Diktys Stratakis , David V. Neuffer

A high-statistics determination of the differential cross section of elastic muon-electron scattering as a function of the transferred four-momentum squared, $d \sigma_{el}(\mu e \to \mu e)/dq^2$, has been argued to provide an effective…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-25 Tommaso Dorigo

Cosmic ray muon, as they pass through a material, undergoes Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS). The analysis of muon scattering angle in a material provides us with an opportunity to study the characteristics of material and its internal 3D…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-02 Bharat Kumar Sirasva , Satyajit Jena , Rohit Gupta

The search for feebly-interacting new-physics particles in the MeV-GeV mass range often involves high-intensity beams dumped into thick heavy targets. The challenge of evaluating the expected backgrounds for these searches from first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-15 Stefan Ghinescu , Babette Döbrich , Elisa Minucci , Tommaso Spadaro

Muography is an imaging technique based on attenuation of the directional muon flux traversing geological or anthropic structures. Several simulation frameworks help to perform muography studies by combining specialised codes from the muon…

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