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A precise simulation of muons with energies above a TeV is crucial for neutrino telescopes or cosmic ray experiments. To further increase the precision of these simulations, improved cross-section calculations are needed. At these energies,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-17 Jan Soedingrekso , Alexander Sandrock , Wolfgang Rhode

The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied dimuon production in 158 AGeV In-In collisions. The strong pair excess above the known sources found in the mass region $0.2<M<2.5$ GeV has been previously interpreted as thermal radiation. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Gianluca Usai

The surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceTop, consists of an array of ice-Cherenkov tanks measuring the electromagnetic signal as well as low-energy ($\sim\rm{GeV}$) muons from cosmic-ray air showers. In addition,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Mark Weyrauch , Dennis Soldin

The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied dimuon production in 158A GeV In-In collisions. The strong excess of pairs above the known sources found in the complete mass region 0.2<M<2.6 GeV has previously been interpreted as thermal…

Muons are copiously produced within hadronic extensive air showers (EAS) occurring in the Earth's atmosphere, and are used by particle air shower detectors as a means of identifying the primary cosmic ray which initiated the EAS. Imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 A. M. W. Mitchell , H. P. Dembinski , R. D. Parsons

In this work, we use muon bundles which are formed in extensive air showers and detected at the ground level as a tool for searching anisotropy of high energy cosmic rays. Such choice is explained by the penetrating ability of muons which…

Interactions of cosmic rays with the galactic interstellar medium produce high-energy neutrinos through the decay of charged pions and kaons. We report on a search with the AMANDA-II detector for muon neutrinos from the region of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. L. Kelley

At ground level, the azimuthal distribution of muons in inclined Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is asymmetric, mainly due to geometric effects. Several EAS observables sensitive to the primary particle mass, are constructed after mapping the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Nicusor Arsene , Markus Roth , Octavian Sima

In 2016 and 2017, the COMPASS Collaboration at CERN collected a large sample of DIS events with a longitudinally polarized 160 GeV/c muon beam scattering off a liquid hydrogen target. Part of the collected data has been analyzed to extract…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-23 Andrea Moretti

A search for supersymmetry in events with four or more charged leptons (electrons, muons and $\tau$-leptons) is presented. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to $139\,\mbox{fb\(^{-1}\)}$ of proton-proton collisions delivered by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-25 ATLAS Collaboration

The distribution of the azimuthal angle of charged and neutral hadrons relative to the lepton plane has been studied for neutral current deep inelastic $ep$ scattering using an integrated luminosity of 45 pb-1 taken with the ZEUS detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 ZEUS Collaboration

In the current paper, we analyzed the variation of cosmic radiation flux with elevation, time of the year and ambient temperature with the help of a portable cosmic muon detector, the construction of which was completed by a team from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-02 Nepal Ramesh , Martin Hawron , Clayton Martin , Abdel Bachri

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may explain the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly. We applied this idea to SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , Yi-Ming Zhong

Project GRAND is a 100m x 100m air shower array of proportional wire chambers (PWCs). There are 64 stations each with eight 1.29 m^2 PWC planes arranged in four orthogonal pairs placed vertically above one another to geometrically measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Poirier , C. D'Andrea , J. Gress , D. Race

Results are presented from a search for large, extra spatial dimensions in events with either two isolated muons or two isolated electrons. The data are from proton-proton interactions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected with the CMS detector at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-01-23 CMS Collaboration

We propose to extract the charge information of high energy muons in very inclined extensive air showers by analyzing their relative lateral positions in the shower transverse plane. We calculate the muon lateral deviation under the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 BingKan Xue , Bo-Qiang Ma

The DELPHI detector at LEP, located 100 $m$ underground, has been used to detect the multi-muon bundles by cathode readout of its hadron calorimeter and its tracking detectors (TPC, muon chambers). The experimental apparatus allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Travnicek , Jan Ridky

Characteristics of the muon component in EAS are analyzed together with their fluctuations. The aim of this analysis -- a comparison of experimental data with computational results obtained within frameworks of various hadron interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-07 S. P. Knurenko , A. K. Makarov , M. I. Pravdin , A. Sabourov

This paper presents measurements from the ATLAS experiment of the forward-backward asymmetry in the reaction $pp\rightarrow Z/\gamma^{*}\rightarrow l^{+}l^{-}$, with $l$ being electrons or muons, and the extraction of the effective weak…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-22 ATLAS Collaboration

The results of a search for new physics in events with two opposite-sign isolated electrons or muons, hadronic activity, and missing transverse energy in the final state are presented. The results are based on analysis of a data sample with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel Sprenger