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Neutrino telescopes are opening new opportunities in observational high energy astrophysics. In these detectors, atmospheric muons from primary cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere play an important role. They provide the most abundant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 G. Carminati , M. Bazzotti , S. Biagi , S. Cecchini , T. Chiarusi , A. Margiotta , M. Sioli , M. Spurio

We calculate the anomalous magnetic moment for muons at one loop level arising from left right symmetric excited leptons which are excited states of known standard model leptons. Such excited states arise in compositeness theories where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-20 Piyali Banerjee

The muon puzzle -- an excess of muons relative to simulation predictions in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray air showers -- has been reported by many experiments. This suggests that forward particle production in hadronic interactions is not…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 FASER Collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , Saul Alonso Monsalve , John Anders , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Tobias Boeckh , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Xin Chen , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Monica D'Onofrio , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Haruhi Fujimori , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Yotam Granov , Carl Gwilliam , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Umut Kose , Rafaella Kotitsa , Peter Krack , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Sebastian Laudage , Lorne Levinson , Botao Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Chiara Magliocca , Toni Mäkelä , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Matteo Milanesio , Théo Moretti , Keiko Moriyama , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Ken Ohashi , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Pawan Pawan , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Juan Rojo , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Jorge Sabater-Iglesias , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Christiano Sebastiani , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Savannah Shively , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Ondrej Theiner , Simon Thor , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Monika Wielers , Benjamin James Wilson , Jialin Wu , Johannes Martin Wuthrich , Yue Xu , Daichi Yoshikawa , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang , Xingyu Zhao

A positive muon ($\mu^+$) and an electron ($e^-$) form the the hydrogen-like muonium atom ($M$=$\mu^+ e^-$). Since it consists of two leptonic particles which are according to present knowledge point-like, accurate calculations of its level…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 K. Jungmann

Tensions in several phenomenological models grew with experimental results on neutrino/antineutrino oscillations at Short-Baseline (SBL) and with the recent, carefully recomputed, antineutrino fluxes from nuclear reactors. At a refurbished…

We analyze a thought neutrino oscillation experiment in which neutrinos are produced by electrons colliding with atomic nuclei of a target. The neutrinos are detected by observing charged leptons, which are produced by neutrinos colliding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Dolgov , L. B. Okun , M. V. Rotaev , M. G. Schepkin

The results obtained by studying the background of neutrons produced by cosmic-ray muons in underground experimental facilities intended for rare-event searches and in surrounding rock are presented. The types of this rock may include…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-21 K. V. Manukovsky , O. G. Ryazhskaya , N. M. Sobolevsky , A. V. Yudin

We investigate hadron formation in deep inelastic lepton scattering on N, Kr and Xe nuclei in the kinematic regime of the HERMES experiment. The elementary electron-nucleon interaction is described within the event generator PYTHIA while a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Falter , W. Cassing , K. Gallmeister , U. Mosel

It is shown that the processes of electron(positron) scattering and $e^+e^-$ pair production in the Coulomb fields of two relativistic ions, can be expressed through the amplitudes of lepton scattering off the ion Coulomb field via Watson…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Sissakian , A. V. Tarasov , H. T. Torosyan , O. O. Voskresenskaya

The cross sections for exclusive muon pair production in nucleus - nucleus collisions are calculated and several differential distributions are shown. Realistic (Fourier transform of charge density) charge form factors of nuclei are used…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-04 Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Antoni Szczurek

We describe two independent methods to calculate the angular distribution of muons after traversing a thick scatterer due to multiple Coulomb scattering. Both methods take into account the nuclear size effect. We demonstrate a necessity to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Butkevich , R. P. Kokoulin , G. V. Matushko , S. P. Mikheyev

We study the bremsstrahlung of virtual omega mesons due to the collective deceleration of nuclei at the initial stage of an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision. It is shown that electromagnetic decays of these mesons may give an important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. N. Mishustin , L. M. Satarov , H. Stoecker , W. Greiner

Meson-exchange currents (MEC) play a crucial role in the nuclear response to a leptonic probe, inducing the emission of two nucleons, the so-called 2p2h excitations. Here we report the results of our recent work \cite{Belocchi:2025eix}, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-18 M. B. Barbaro , V. Belocchi , A. De Pace , M. Martini

Coherent nuclear excitation in strongly laser-driven muonic atoms is calculated. The nuclear transition is caused by the time-dependent Coulomb field of the oscillating charge density of the bound muon. A closed-form analytical expression…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Shahbaz , C. Müller , T. J. Buervenich , C. H. Keitel

We investigate pair production of selectrons in electron-electron-scattering with subsequent decay into an electron and the LSP including ISR and beamstrahlung. This process can be used at a linear collider to measure the selectron masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bloechinger , H. Fraas , T. Mayer

We estimate the benefit of muon colliders for photon physics. We calculate the rate at which photons are emitted from muon beams in different production mechanisms. Bremsstrahlung is reduced, beamstrahlung disappears, and laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michael Klasen

We study muon pair production $ e^+ e^- \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ in the noncommutative(NC) extension of the standard model using the Seiberg-Witten maps of this to the second order of the noncommutative parameter $\Theta_{\mu \nu}$. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-08 Abhishodh Prakash , Anupam Mitra , Prasanta Kumar Das

We explored a distinct mechanism for matter creation via electron-positron pair production during bound-bound transitions in the deexcitation of one-muon ions. For ions with nuclear charges $Z\geq24$, transitions from low-lying excited…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Oleg Yu. Andreev , Deyang Yu , Konstantin N. Lyashchenko , Daria M. Vasileva

Motivated by the observation of tiny neutrino mass can not be explained within the framework of Standard Model (SM), we consider extra gauge extended scenarios in which tiny neutrino masses are generated through seesaw mechanism. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Kento Asai , Arindam Das , Jinmian Li , Takaaki Nomura , Osamu Seto

The reduced cross section of the semiexclusive $(l,l'p)$ lepton scat tering process irrespective of the type of interaction is determined mainly by bound nucleon momentum distribution in target and nucleon final state interaction with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 A. V. Butkevich , S. V. Luchuk