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We discuss a technique for measuring a charged particle's momentum by means of multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). This method does not require the full particle ionization…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , J. Asaadi , M. Auger , L. Bagby , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , M. Bass , F. Bay , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Bugel , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , H. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , E. Cohen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. Esquivel , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , G. T. Garvey , V. Genty , D. Goeldi , S. Gollapinni , N. Graf , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Hackenburg , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , V Hewes , C. Hill , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , E. -C. Huang , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , C. -M. Jen , L. Jiang , R. A. Johnson , B. J. P. Jones , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , L. N. Kalousis , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , A. Laube , Y. Li , A. Lister , B. R. Littlejohn , S. Lockwitz , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , M. Luethi , B. Lundberg , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , V. Meddage , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. D. Moore , J. Mousseau , R. Murrells , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , D. Porzio , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , A. Rafique , L. Rochester , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , J. Sinclair , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , K. Terao , M. Thomson , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , T. Usher , R. G. Van de Water , B. Viren , M. Weber , J. Weston , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , T. Yang , L. Yates , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

We present a momentum measurement method based on multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) in the FASER$\nu$ emulsion detector. The measurement of charged-particle momenta is essential for studying neutrino interactions in the TeV energy range at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-20 FASER Collaboration , Roshan Mammen Abraham , Xiaocong Ai , Saul Alonso Monsalve , John Anders , Emma Kate Anderson , Claire Antel , Akitaka Ariga , Tomoko Ariga , Jeremy Atkinson , Florian U. Bernlochner , Tobias Boeckh , Eliot Bornand , Jamie Boyd , Lydia Brenner , Angela Burger , Franck Cadoux , Roberto Cardella , David W. Casper , Charlotte Cavanagh , Shiyang Chen , Xin Chen , Xing Cheng , Kohei Chinone , Dhruv Chouhan , Andrea Coccaro , Stephane Débieux , Ansh Desai , Sergey Dmitrievsky , Radu Dobre , Monica D'Onofrio , Sinead Eley , Yannick Favre , Jonathan L. Feng , Carlo Alberto Fenoglio , Didier Ferrere , Max Fieg , Wissal Filali , Elena Firu , Haruhi Fujimori , Edward Galantay , Ali Garabaglu , Stephen Gibson , Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla , Yuri Gornushkin , Yotam Granov , Jinjing Gu , Carl Gwilliam , Elie Hammou , Daiki Hayakawa , Michael Holzbock , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Zhen Hu , Giuseppe Iacobucci , Tomohiro Inada , Luca Iodice , Sune Jakobsen , Cesar Jesus-Valls , Arash Jofrehei , Hans Joos , Enrique Kajomovitz , Takumi Kanai , Hiroaki Kawahara , Alex Keyken , Felix Kling , Daniela Köck , Pantelis Kontaxakis , Jelle Koorn , Umut Kose , Peter Krack , Susanne Kuehn , Thanushan Kugathasan , Sebastian Laudage , Lorne Levinson , Botao Li , Jinfeng Liu , Yi Liu , Margaret S. Lutz , Jack MacDonald , Joern Mahlstedt , Toni Mäkelä , Anna Mascellani , Lawson McCoy , Josh McFayden , Andrea Pizarro Medina , Théo Moretti , Keiko Moriyama , Toshiyuki Nakano , Laurie Nevay , Motoya Nonaka , Yuma Ohara , Ken Ohashi , Kazuaki Okui , Hidetoshi Otono , Lorenzo Paolozzi , Annabelle Parry , Pawan Pawan , Brian Petersen , Titi Preda , Markus Prim , Junkai Qin , Michaela Queitsch-Maitland , Juan Rojo , Hiroki Rokujo , André Rubbia , Osamu Sato , Paola Scampoli , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Cristiano Sebastiani , Anna Sfyrla , Davide Sgalaberna , Mansoora Shamim , Yosuke Takubo , Noshin Tarannum , Simon Thor , Eric Torrence , Oscar Ivan Valdes Martinez , Svetlana Vasina , Benedikt Vormwald , Chi Wang , Yuxiao Wang , Eli Welch , Aaron White , Monika Wielers , Benjamin James Wilson , Yue Xu , Heng Yang , Lekai Yao , Daichi Yoshikawa , Stefano Zambito , Shunliang Zhang , Yuxuan Zhang , Xingyu Zhao , Zijian Zhao

We present an improved technique for estimating a muon's energy by measuring the deflections along its path inside the MicroBooNE detector from multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS). This approach implements several innovations that better…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-06 MicroBooNE Collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , B. Behera , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , V. Bhelande , A. Binau , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , M. Harrison , S. Hawkins , A. Hergenhan , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , A. Johnson , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , A. Kelly , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , K. Kumar , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , S. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , N. Majeed , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , M. G. Manuel Alves , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , F. Martinez Lopez , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , B. McConnell , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , A. Mogan , T. Mohayai , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. A. Hernandez Morquecho , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleriababu , D. Naples , A. Navrer Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , L. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. B. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , C. Sauer , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , L. Silva , E. L. Snider , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , L. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang , Y. Zhang

Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low $Z$ materials made in the MuScat experiment showed that theoretical models and simulation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Bogomilov , R. Tsenov , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. P. Song , J. Y. Tang , Z. H. Li , R. Bertoni , M. Bonesini , F. Chignoli , R. Mazza , V. Palladino , A. de Bari , D. Orestano , L. Tortora , Y. Kuno , H. Sakamoto , A. Sato , S. Ishimoto , M. Chung , C. K. Sung , F. Filthaut , M. Fedorov , D. Jokovic , D. Maletic , M. Savic , N. Jovancevic , J. Nikolov , M. Vretenar , S. Ramberger , R. Asfandiyarov , A. Blondel , F. Drielsma , Y. Karadzhov , G. Charnley , N. Collomb , K. Dumbell , A. Gallagher , A. Grant , S. Griffiths , T. Hartnett , B. Martlew , A. Moss , A. Muir , I. Mullacrane , A. Oates , P. Owens , G. Stokes , P. Warburton , C. White , D. Adams , V. Bayliss , J. Boehm , T. W. Bradshaw , C. Brown , M. Courthold , J. Govans , M. Hills , J. -B. Lagrange , C. Macwaters , A. Nichols , R. Preece , S. Ricciardi , C. Rogers , T. Stanley , J. Tarrant , M. Tucker , S. Watson , A. Wilson , R. Bayes , J. C. Nugent , F. J. P. Soler , R. Gamet , P. Cooke , V. J. Blackmore , D. Colling , A. Dobbs , P. Dornan , P. Franchini , C. Hunt , P. B. Jurj , A. Kurup , K. Long , J. Martyniak , S. Middleton , J. Pasternak , M. A. Uchida , J. H. Cobb , C. N. Booth , P. Hodgson , J. Langlands , E. Overton , V. Pec , P. J. Smith , S. Wilbur , G. T. Chatzitheodoridis , A. J. Dick , K. Ronald , C. G. Whyte , A. R. Young , S. Boyd , J. R. Greis , T. Lord , C. Pidcott , I. Taylor , M. Ellis , R. B. S. Gardener , P. Kyberd , J. J. Nebrensky , M. Palmer , H. Witte , D. Adey , A. D. Bross , D. Bowring , P. Hanlet , A. Liu , D. Neuffer , M. Popovic , P. Rubinov , A. DeMello , S. Gourlay , A. Lambert , D. Li , T. Luo , S. Prestemon , S. Virostek , B. Freemire , D. M. Kaplan , T. A. Mohayai , D. Rajaram , P. Snopok , Y. Torun , L. M. Cremaldi , D. A. Sanders , D. J. Summers , L. R. Coney , G. G. Hanson , C. Heidt

A new method of momentum measurement of charged particles through Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) in the OPERA lead emulsion target is presented. It is based on precise measurements of track angular deviations performed thanks to the very…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 The OPERA Collaboration

This paper describes a new method for momentum reconstruction of charged particles using multiple Coulomb scatterings in a nuclear emulsion detector with a layered structure of nuclear emulsion films and target materials. The method…

Upward throughgoing muons in underground detectors are induced by atmospheric $\nu_\mu$ with energies in the $1-10^4 GeV$ range. The oscillations of atmospheric muon neutrinos should affect mainly those with energy smaller than $E_\nu \sim…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bakari , Y. Becherini , M. Spurio

A magnetic detector such as MINOS which is measuring the sign of muons has to deal with issues of bending, which depend on the magnetic field configuration, and multiple scattering, which depends on the amount of material which is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-06-06 Maury Goodman

Muon energy measurement represents an important issue for any experiment addressing neutrino induced upgoing muon studies. Since the neutrino oscillation probability depends on the neutrino energy, a measurement of the muon energy adds an…

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

An estimate of the energy of neutrino-induced muons in MACRO is provided by a multiple Coulomb scattering measurement. The MACRO original upward-muon data sample has been subdivided according to the reconstructed muon energy. Data in each…

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

In both particle physics and cosmic ray 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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-25 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Muon scattering tomography (MST) is a non-destructive technique to image various materials by utilizing cosmic ray muons as probes. A typical MST system with a two-fold track detectors is particularly effective in detecting high-$Z$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-22 Jiahui Chen , Huiling Li , Yiyue Li , Pingcheng Liu

This paper describes a new measurement of the flux ratio of positive and negative muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere, using data collected by the CMS detector at ground level and in the underground experimental cavern. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-10-07 Gavin Hesketh

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-10 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Cosmic ray muons present a large part of the radiation background and depending on the application of interest muons can be seen as background noise, e.g., radiation mapping, radiation protection, dosimetry, or as a useful interrogation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-10 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

A measurement is presented of the flux ratio of positive and negative muons from cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere, using data collected by the CMS detector at ground level and in the underground experimental cavern. The excellent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-22 Lars Sonnenschein

Muon imaging, especially muon scattering tomography (MST), has recently garnered significant attention. MST measures the magnitude of muon scattering angles inside an object, which depends not only on the material properties but also on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-17 Pei Yu , Ziwen Pan , Jiajia Zhai , Yu Xu , Li Deng , Zhengyang He , Zhe Chen , Zechao Kang , Yuhong Yu , Xueheng Zhang , Liangwen Chen , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun

Cosmic ray muons have been considered as a non-conventional radiation probe in various applications. To utilize cosmic ray muons in engineering applications, two important quantities, trajectory and momentum, must be known. The muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-04 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

The MUonE experiment has been proposed to measure the differential cross section of $\mu e$ elastic scattering, by colliding the 160 GeV muons of the CERN M2 beam with atomic electrons of thin target plates. From a very precise measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-26 Giovanni Abbiendi
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