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We argue that the COMET experiment --- a dedicated experiment for the $\mu$-$e$ conversion search --- can be a powerful facility to search for heavy neutrinos in the mass range $1\,{\rm MeV} \lesssim M \lesssim 100\,{\rm MeV}$. The stopped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-16 Takehiko Asaka , Atsushi Watanabe

The high energy gamma ray sources provided by experiment EGRET on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory are examined, testing Project GRAND's ability to detect primary gamma rays by means of studying secondary muons. There is ~1.5% chance that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Carpenter , S. Desch , T. F. Lin , J. Poirier , A. Roesch

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

Measurements at 100 TeV and above are an important goal for the next generation of high energy gamma-ray astronomy experiments to solve the still open problem of the origin of galactic cosmic rays. The most natural experimental solution to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 G. Di Sciascio , T. Di Girolamo , E. Rossi , L. Saggese

We report here a systematic quantitative study on generation and characteristics of an active muon source driven by the interaction of an electron beam within the energy range of 1 to 10 GeV from laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Bobbili Sanyasi Rao , Jong Ho Jeon , Hyung Taek Kim , Chang Hee Nam

Experimental activities involving multi-TeV muon collisions are a relatively recent endeavor. The community has limited experience in designing detectors for lepton interactions at center-of-mass energies of 10 TeV and beyond. This review…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-08 Massimo Casarsa , Donatella Lucchesi , Lorenzo Sestini

Mie theory is a powerful method to model electromagnetic scattering from a multilayered sphere. Usually, the incident beam is expanded to its vector spherical harmonic representation defined by beam shape coefficients, and the multilayer…

The MUonE experiment aims at providing a novel determination of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering. Since the initial-state electrons are bound in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 G. Abbiendi , E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , A. Gurgone , F. Piccinini

The proposal for a high-energy muon collider offers many opportunities in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The collider by construction is likely to be more sensitive to the muon-philic models, primarily motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-14 Nivedita Ghosh , Santosh Kumar Rai , Tousik Samui

High-energy neutrinos, arising from decays of mesons produced through the collisions of cosmic ray particles with air nuclei, form the background in the astrophysical neutrino detection problem. An ambiguity in high-energy behavior of pion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 S. I. Sinegovsky , O. N. Petrova , T. S. Sinegovskaya

An effective analytical method for calculating energy spectra of cosmic-ray muons at large depths of homogeneous media is developed. The method allows to include an arbitrary (decreasing) muon spectrum at the medium boundary and the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Naumov , S. I. Sinegovsky , E. V. Bugaev

This study explores the feasibility of using scintillation detectors for muon calorimetry through experiments conducted at CERN's T10 beamline. Results from organic scintillators with varying thicknesses and readout methods, as well as a…

Muon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The amount of multidisciplinary applications of…

The MUonE experiment aims to extract the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from a precise measurement of the muon-electron differential scattering cross section. We show that MUonE can also discover thermal relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-01 Gordan Krnjaic , Duncan Rocha , Isaac R. Wang

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

Ion extraction from DECRIS-PM source is simulated by using initial distributions of ions at the extraction aperture obtained with NAM-ECRIS code. Three-dimensional calculations of plasma emissive surface are done and ions are traced in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 V. Mironov , S. Bogomolov , A. Bondarchenko , A. Efremov , V. Loginov

The recently proposed MUonE experiment at CERN aims at providing a novel determination of the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering at relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , C. L. Del Pio , F. Piccinini

A so-called "two-step reaction scheme", in which neutron-rich rare isotopes obtained from ISOL are post-accelerated and bombarded on a second target, is employed to estimate the production yields of exotic rare isotopes. The production…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Jae Won Shin , Kyung Joo Min , Cheolmin Ham , Tae-Sun Park , Seung-Woo Hong

Muon colliders provide an exciting new direction to expand the energy frontier of particle physics. We point out a new use of these facilities for neutrino and beyond the Standard Model physics using their main detectors. Muon decays along…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Luc Bojorquez-Lopez , Matheus Hostert , Carlos A. Argüelles , Zhen Liu