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The KM3NeT research infrastructure instruments a large volume of seawater using photomultiplier tubes, which are sensitive to the Cherenkov radiation stimulated by the products of neutrino interactions in the water, as well as that…

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Finding the possible stopping sites for muons inside a crystalline sample is a key problem of muon spectroscopy. In a previous work, we suggested a computational approach to this problem, using Density Functional Theory software in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Simone Sturniolo , Leandro Liborio , Samuel Jackson

Despite the significant experimental effort made in the last decades, the origin of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays is still largely unknown. Key astrophysical information to identify where these energetic particles come from is provided…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 D. Ravignani , A. D. Supanitsky , D. Melo

We propose a new fast algorithm for simultaneous recovery of the coil sensitivities and of the magnetization image from incomplete Fourier measurements in parallel MRI. Our approach is based on a parameter model for the coil sensitivities…

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Imaging the inner part of large geological targets is an important issue in geosciences with various applications. Dif- ferent approaches already exist (e.g. gravimetry, electrical tomography) that give access to a wide range of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-02-01 J. Marteau , D. Gibert , N. Lesparre , F. Nicollin , P. Noli , F. Giacoppo

The performance of muon reconstruction in CMS is evaluated using a large data sample of cosmic-ray muons recorded in 2008. Efficiencies of various high-level trigger, identification, and reconstruction algorithms have been measured for a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

In both particle physics and muon applications, a high-resolution muon momentum measurement capability plays a significant role not only in providing valuable information on the properties of subatomic particles but also in improving the…

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Large scale neutrino detectors and muon tomography rely on the muon direction in the detector to infer the muon's or parent neutrino's origin. However, muons accumulate deflections along their propagation path prior to entering the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Pascal Gutjahr , Jean-Marco Alameddine , Alexander Sandrock , Jan Soedingrekso , Mirco Hünnefeld , Wolfgang Rhode

The ANTARES Collaboration is building a high-energy neutrino telescope at 2500 m depth in the Mediterranean Sea. The experiment aims to search for high-energy cosmic neutrinos through the detection of Cerenkov light induced by muons and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-30 Y. Becherini

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a high-energy neutrino telescope operating at the geographic South Pole. It is a lattice of photo-multiplier tubes buried deep in the polar ice between 1500m and 2000m. The primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-16 The AMANDA Collaboration , J. Ahrens

Compressed sensing for magnetic resonance imaging (CS-MRI) exploits image sparsity properties to reconstruct MRI from very few Fourier k-space measurements. The goal is to minimize any structural errors in the reconstruction that could have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Liyan Sun , Zhiwen Fan , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , John Paisley

We demonstrate that muon tomography can be used to precisely measure the properties of various materials. The materials which have been considered have been extracted from an experimental blast furnace, including carbon (coke) and iron…

Muography or muon radiography estimates the density distribution of natural or anthropic structures by measuring the traversing flux of atmospheric muons. Muography has been implemented to image volcanoes, glaciers, tunnels, line-shores,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Jesús Peña-Rodríguez

We introduce a new search strategy for visibly decaying muonphilic particles using a proton beam spectrometer modeled after the SpinQuest experiment at Fermilab. In this setup, a ${\sim}$100 GeV primary proton beam impinges on a thick fixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Diana Forbes , Christian Herwig , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Cristina Mantilla Suarez , Nhan Tran , Andrew Whitbeck

Existing tensor completion formulation mostly relies on partial observations from a single tensor. However, tensors extracted from real-world data are often more complex due to: (i) Partial observation: Only a small subset (e.g., 5%) of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Chaoqi Yang , Navjot Singh , Cao Xiao , Cheng Qian , Edgar Solomonik , Jimeng Sun

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

Muon colliders offer a compelling opportunity to explore the TeV scale and conduct precision tests of the Standard Model, all within a relatively compact geographical footprint. This paper introduces a new detector concept, MAIA (Muon…

Robust tensor completion (RTC) aims to recover a low-rank tensor from its incomplete observation with outlier corruption. The recently proposed tensor ring (TR) model has demonstrated superiority in solving the RTC problem. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zhenhao Huang , Yuning Qiu , Xinqi Chen , Weijun Sun , Guoxu Zhou

In recent years, muon tomography has turned into a powerful and innovative technique for non-invasive imaging of large and small structures with applications in different areas like geology, archaeology, security, etc. We present the design…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-12 J. A. Rengifo , J. L. Bazo

Muon radiography is a promising technique to image the internal density structures upto a few hundred meters scale, such as tunnels, pyramids and volcanos, by measuring the flux attenuation of cosmic ray muons after trvaling through these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-29 Y. Cheng , R. Han , Z. Li , J. Li , J. Li , W. Gu , X. Yang , X. Ouyang , B. Liao