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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

A search for aligned events has been done throughout the muon group events measured with Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) during a long period of time. Only groups of multiplicity >3 for muon threshold energies equal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. L. Tsyabuk , R. A. Mukhamedshin , Yu. V. Stenkin

Atmospheric muons play an important role in underwater/ice neutrino detectors. In this paper, a parameterisation of the flux of single and multiple muon events, their lateral distribution and of their energy spectrum is presented. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Y. Becherini , A. Margiotta , M. Sioli , M. Spurio

We have measured directly the residual energy of cosmic ray muons crossing the MACRO detector at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. For this measurement we have used a transition radiation detector consisting of three identical modules, each of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The MACRO Collaboration , M. Ambrosio et al

Recent applications of cosmic-ray muons require accurate modeling of their flux at low-energy. However, no measurement has been reported below 400 MeV. Therefore, we developed a full-absorption muon energy spectrometer to obtain energy…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Hikaru Sato , Tadahiro Kin , Andrea Giammanco

Muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere provide a high-statistics source of particles that can be used to study the performance and calibration of the ATLAS detector. Cosmic-ray muons can penetrate to the cavern and deposit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The ATLAS Collaboration

We report the in-situ 3D reconstruction of through-going muons in the CUORE experiment, a cryogenic calorimeter array searching for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay, leveraging the segmentation of the detector. Due to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 CUORE Collaboration , D. Q. Adams , C. Alduino , K. Alfonso , A. Armatol , F. T. Avignone , O. Azzolini , G. Bari , F. Bellini , G. Benato , M. Beretta , M. Biassoni , A. Branca , D. Brandani , C. Brofferio , C. Bucci , J. Camilleri , A. Caminata , A. Campani , J. Cao , S. Capelli , L. Cappelli , L. Cardani , P. Carniti , N. Casali , D. Chiesa , Y. Chu , M. Clemenza , S. Copello , O. Cremonesi , R. J. Creswick , A. D'Addabbo , I. Dafinei , S. Dell'Oro , S. Di Domizio , S. Di Lorenzo , T. Dixon , D. Q. Fang , M. Faverzani , E. Ferri , F. Ferroni , E. Fiorini , M. A. Franceschi , S. J. Freedman , S. H. Fu , B. K. Fujikawa , S. Ghislandi , A. Giachero , M. Girola , L. Gironi , A. Giuliani , P. Gorla , C. Gotti , P. V. Guillaumon , T. D. Gutierrez , K. Han , E. V. Hansen , K. M. Heeger , D. L. Helis , H. Z. Huang , M. T. Hurst , G. Keppel , Yu. G. Kolomensky , R. Kowalski , R. Liu , L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Marini , R. H. Maruyama , D. Mayer , M. N. Moore , T. Napolitano , M. Nastasi , C. Nones , E. B. Norman , A. Nucciotti , I. Nutini , T. O'Donnell , M. Olmi , S. Pagan , C. E. Pagliarone , L. Pagnanini , M. Pallavicini , L. Pattavina , M. Pavan , G. Pessina , V. Pettinacci , C. Pira , S. Pirro , E. G. Pottebaum , S. Pozzi , E. Previtali , A. Puiu , S. Puranam , S. Quitadamo , A. Ressa , C. Rosenfeld , B. Schmidt , R. Serino , A. Shaikina , V. Sharma , V. Singh , M. Sisti , D. Speller , P. T. Surukuchi , L. Taffarello , C. Tomei , A. Torres , J. A. Torres , K. J. Vetter , M. Vignati , S. L. Wagaarachchi , R. Wang , B. Welliver , J. Wilson , K. Wilson , L. A. Winslow , F. Xie , T. Zhu , S. Zimmermann , S. Zucchelli

The neutron background at the underground laboratory at Boulby - a site for several dark matter experiments - is discussed. Special emphasis is put on the neutron background produced by cosmic-ray muons. The most recent versions of the muon…

A dedicated cosmic muon Monte-Carlo event generator CMSCGEN has been developed for the CMS experiment. The simulation relies on parameterisations of the muon energy and the incidence angle, based on measured and simulated data of the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-05 Lars Sonnenschein

This paper is a mini-review of the atmospheric muon and neutrino flux calculations based upon a recent version of CORT code and up-to-date data on primary cosmic rays and hadronic interactions. A comparison of calculations with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim A. Naumov

A new calculation of the atmospheric fluxes of cosmic-ray hadrons and muons in the energy range 10-10^5 GeV has been performed for the set of hadron production models, EPOS 1.6, QGSJET II-03, SIBYLL 2.1, and others that are of interest to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-16 A. A. Kochanov , T. S. Sinegovskaya , S. I. Sinegovsky

More than 30 million of high-energy muons collected with the MACRO detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory have been used to search for flux variations of different natures. Two kinds of studies were carried out: search for…

We report the first measurement of the underground cosmic muon flux at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory. The measurement uses eight EJ200 plastic scintillator panels, equipped with Hamamatsu R13089 PMT pairs at the ends, which are…

A fair knowledge of the atmospheric muon distributions at Earth is a prerequisite for the simulations of cosmic ray setups and rare event search detectors. A modified power law is proposed for atmospheric muon energy distribution which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-01 Prashant Shukla , Sundaresh Sankrith

Muon imaging, a non-invasive technique that utilizes naturally occurring cosmic muons, has emerged as a promising tool for exploring underwater objects, including shipwrecks. This study investigates the potential of muon radiography to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-09 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

Atmospheric muons are the most frequently observed form of cosmic radiation. Despite this, the existence of the muon flux component produced in decays of short-lived parent particles, called prompt muon flux still awaits experimental…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-07 Piotr Kalaczyński

We estimate the synchrotron radiation of cosmic muons in a uniform magnetic field in the $\mu$eV-to-meV energy scale. Such events can potentially bring backgrounds to the axion dark matter searches. The GEANT4 software package is utilized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-07 Dan Zhang , Gray Rybka , Edward J. Daw , Robyn Evren

Underground muon events detected by the MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso have been studied for different purposes. The studies include the vertical muon intensity measurement, multiplicity distribution, lateral and angular muon distribution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Sioli

We present a cosmic ray muon tomographic experiment for measuring the muon flux and imaging the tunnel overburden structures in Changshu, China. The device used in this study is a tracking detector based on the plastic scintillator with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-28 Ran Han , Qian Yu , Zhiwei Li , Jingtai Li , Yaping Cheng , Bin Liao , Lixiang Jiang , Sidao Ni , Tianfang Liu , Zheng Wang