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The muon-to-electron conversion in nuclei like aluminum, titanium and gold is studied in the context of a class of mirror fermion model with non-sterile right-handed neutrinos having mass at the electroweak scale. At the limit of zero…

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Production and decay angular distributions were extracted from measurements of exclusive electroproduction of the rho^0(770) meson over a range in the virtual photon negative four-momentum squared 0.5< Q^2 <4 GeV^2 and the photon-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-07 HERMES Collaboration , K. Ackerstaff

The angular distributions and the differential branching fraction of the decay B0 to K*(892)0 mu+ mu- are studied using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.2 inverse femtobarns collected with the CMS detector at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-11-11 CMS Collaboration

This paper discusses a parallelized event reconstruction of the COMET Phase-I experiment. The experiment aims to discover charged lepton flavor violation by observing 104.97 MeV electrons from neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion in…

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Nearly complete angular distributions of the two-body deuteron photodisintegration differential cross section have been measured using the CLAS detector and the tagged photon beam at JLab. The data cover photon energies between 0.5 and 3.0…

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In the previous paper (Part~1), we have verified that the SK assumption on the direction does not hold in the analysis of neutrino events occurred inside the SK detector. We have made four possible L/E analyses, L_nu/E_nu, L_nu/E_mu,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-07-29 E. Konishi , Y. Minorikawa , V. I. Galkin , M. Ishiwata , I. Nakamura , N. Takahashi , M. Kato , A. Misaki

We present a measurement of the underground decoherence function using multi-muon events observed in the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso at an average depth of 3800 hg/cm**2. Muon pair separations up to 70 m have been measured, corresponding…

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Inverse muon decay ($\nu_\mu e^- \to \nu_e \mu^-$) is a promising tool to constrain neutrino fluxes with energies $E_{\nu} \ge 10.9~\mathrm{GeV}$. Radiative corrections introduce percent-level distortions to energy spectra of outgoing muons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Oleksandr Tomalak , Kaushik Borah , Richard J. Hill , Kevin S. McFarland , Daniel Ruterbories

[Background] The proton charge radius extracted from recent muonic hydrogen Lamb shift measurements is significantly smaller than that extracted from atomic hydrogen and electron scattering measurements. [Purpose] In an attempt to…

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The next generation of proton decay and neutrino experiments, the post-SuperKamiokande detectors as those that will take place in megaton size water tanks, will require very large surfaces of photodetection and a large volume of data. Even…

Using scanning gate microscopy (SGM), we probe the scattering between a beam of electrons and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) as a function of the beam's injection energy, and distance from the injection point. At low injection…

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A quantitative understanding of the weak nuclear response is a prerequisite for the analyses of neutrino experiments such as K2K and MiniBOONE, which measure energy and angle of the muons produced in neutrino-nucleus interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Omar Benhar , Nicola Farina , Hiroki Nakamura , Makoto Sakuda , Ryoichi Seki

Angular distribution of neutrinos (recoil nucleus) in muon capture for an allowed Gamov-Teller transition is considered by taking account of hyperfine effects. This angular distribution is shown to include a correlation of the form P_2(cos…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. L. Barabanov , Yu. V. Gaponov , B. V. Danilin , N. B. Shul'gina

We present a search for electron neutrino appearance from accelerator produced muon neutrinos in the K2K long baseline neutrino experiment. One candidate event is found in the data corresponding to an exposure of 4.8*10^19 protons on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K2K Collaboration , M. H. Ahn

Encouraged by the advent of a new generation of underground detectors---JUNO, DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande---that are projected to improve significantly on the present sensitivities to various baryon decay modes, we revisit baryon decay in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 John Ellis , Jason L. Evans , Natsumi Nagata , Keith A. Olive , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

The T2K Experiment has observed the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muon-neutrino beam. Twenty eight neutrino candidates pass the selection cuts with a predicted background of $4.64 \pm 0.53$ events, which corresponds to a 6.8$\sigma$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Michael Wilking

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

Results of a search for supersymmetry are presented using events with a photon, an electron or muon, and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$…

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