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A scintillation muon telescope module with fiber-optic light collection using silicon photomultipliers was developed, tested, and installed for continuous monitoring to study cosmic ray variations. The aim of this study was to create a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Belov S. M. , Yanke V. G

The Mu2e experiment aims to test Charge Lepton Flavour Violation to an unprecedented level, enhancing the current sensitivity by four orders of magnitude for the neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons. A series of graded solenoids…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Giovannella

The upcoming Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavour violating decay $\mu^+\,\rightarrow\,e^+ e^- e^+$ with the aim of a final sensitivity of one signal decay in $10^{16}$ observed muon decays, an improvement over the preceding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-28 Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort

Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPC) consist of hundreds of micro silicon Avalanche PhotoDiodes (APD) working in Geiger mode. The high gain and the low noise, typical of these devices, together with their good performance in magnetic field,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-08 A. Scordo , M. Bazzi , C. Berucci , C. Curceanu , A. D'Uffizi , K. Piscicchia , M. Poli Lener , A. Romero Vidal , E. Sbardella , O. Vazquez Doce

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam at a future neutrino factory or muon collider. The emittance…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 The MICE Collaboration , D. Adams , D. Adey , R. Asfandiyarov , G. Barber , A. de Bari , R. Bayes , V. Bayliss , R. Bertoni , V. Blackmore , A. Blondel , J. Boehm , M. Bogomilov , M. Bonesini , C. N. Booth , D. Bowring , S. Boyd , T. W. Bradshaw , A. D. Bross , C. Brown , L. Coney , G. Charnley , G. T. Chatzitheodoridis , F. Chignoli , M. Chung , D. Cline , J. H. Cobb , D. Colling , N. Collomb , P. Cooke , M. Courthold , L. M. Cremaldi , A. DeMello , A. J. Dick , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , F. Drielsma , K. Dumbell , M. Ellis , F. Filthaut , P. Franchini , B. Freemire , A. Gallagher , R. Gamet , R. B. S. Gardener , S. Gourlay , A. Grant , J. R. Greis , S. Griffiths , P. Hanlet , G. G. Hanson , T. Hartnett , C. Heidt , P. Hodgson , C. Hunt , S. Ishimoto , D. Jokovic , P. B. Jurj , D. M. Kaplan , Y. Karadzhov , A. Klier , Y. Kuno , A. Kurup , P. Kyberd , J-B. Lagrange , J. Langlands , W. Lau , D. Li , Z. Li , A. Liu , K. Long , T. Lord , C. Macwaters , D. Maletic , B. Martlew , J. Martyniak , R. Mazza , S. Middleton , T. A. Mohayai , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , J. J. Nebrensky , D. Neuffer , A. Nichols , J. C. Nugent , A. Oates , D. Orestano , E. Overton , P. Owens , V. Palladino , M. Palmer , J. Pasternak , V. Pec , C. Pidcott , M. Popovic , R. Preece , S. Prestemon , D. Rajaram , S. Ricciardi , M. Robinson , C. Rogers , K. Ronald , P. Rubinov , H. Sakamoto , D. A. Sanders , A. Sato , M. Savic , P. Snopok , P. J. Smith , F. J. P. Soler , Y. Song , T. Stanley , G. Stokes , V. Suezaki , D. J. Summers , C. K. Sung , J. Tang , J. Tarrant , I. Taylor , L. Tortora , Y. Torun , R. Tsenov , M. Tucker , M. A. Uchida , S. Virostek , G. Vankova-Kirilova , P. Warburton , S. Wilbur , A. Wilson , H. Witte , C. White , C. G. Whyte , X. Yang , A. R. Young , M. Zisman

We report on the response of a prototype CMS hadron calorimeter module to charged particle beams of pions, muons, and electrons with momenta up to 375 GeV/c. The data were taken at the H2 and H4 beamlines at CERN in 1995 and 1996. The…

Research on a large-area, cost-effective Muon Telescope Detector has been carried out for RHIC and for next generation detectors at future QCD Lab. We utilize state-of-the-art multi-gap resistive plate chambers with large modules and long…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Lijuan Ruan

In this paper we report on the current status of studies on the expected performance for a detector designed to operate in a muon collider environment. Beam-induced backgrounds (BIB) represent the main challenge in the design of the…

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…

As the field examines a future muon collider as a possible successor to the LHC, we must consider how to fully utilize not only the high-energy particle collisions, but also any lower-energy staging facilities necessary in the R&D process.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-26 Cari Cesarotti , Rikab Gambhir

To suppress the muon background arising from the Beam Delivery System (BDS) of the International Linear Collider (ILC), and to hinder it from reaching the interaction region, two different shielding scenarios are under discussion: five…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-17 Anne Schütz , Lewis Keller , Glen White

A cylindrical GEM tracker is under construction in order to replace and improve the inner tracking system of the BESIII experiment. Tests with planar chamber prototypes were carried out on the H4 beam line of SPS (CERN) with muons of 150…

We are developing a novel high-brightness atomic beam, comprised of a two-body exotic atom called muonium (M $ = \mu^+ + e^-$), for next-generation atomic physics and gravitational interaction measurements. This M source originates from a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-29 J. Zhang , D. Goeldi , R. Iwai , M. Sakurai , A. Soter

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

Muon Tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons in matter is a promising technique for detecting heavily shielded high-Z radioactive materials (U, Pu) in cargo or vehicles. The technique uses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-26 Kondo Gnanvo , Leonard V. Grasso , Marcus Hohlmann , Judson B. Locke , Amilkar S. Quintero , Debasis Mitra

Rare-event search experiments located on-surface, such as short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments, are often limited by muon-induced background events. Highly efficient muon vetos are essential to reduce the detector background and to…

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

The Low-Energy Muon beamline (LEM) at the Paul Scherrer Institute currently stands as the world's only facility providing a continuous beam of low-energy muons with keV energies for conducting muon spin rotation experiments on a nanometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-25 Gianluca Janka , Maria Mendes Martins , Xiaojie Ni , Zaher Salman , Andreas Suter , Thomas Prokscha

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

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment is a general purpose particle detector experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In 2008, the LHC beam was commissioned and successfully steered through the CMS detector. First…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Toyoko J. Orimoto