| Title: |
Measurement of the muon flux from 400 GeV/c protons interacting in a thick molybdenum/tungsten target |
| Authors: |
Ahdida, C; Akmete, A; Albanese, R; Alexandrov, A; Anokhina, A; Aoki, S; Arduini, G; Atkin, E; Azorskiy, N; Back, JJ; Bagulya, A; Dos Santos, FB; Baranov, A; Bardou, F; Barker, GJ; Battistin, M; Bauche, J; Bay, A; Bayliss, V; Bencivenni, G; Berdnikov, AY; Berdnikov, YA; Bertani, M; Betancourt, C; Bezshyiko, I; Bezshyyko, O; Bick, D; Bieschke, S; Blanco, A; Boehm, J; Bogomilov, M; Boiarska, I; Bondarenko, K; Bonivento, WM; Borburgh, J; Boyarsky, A; Brenner, R; Breton, D; Buescher, V; Buonaura, A; Buontempo, S; Cadeddu, S; Calcaterra, A; Calviani, M; Campanelli, M; Casolino, M; Charitonidis, N; Chau, P; Chauveau, J; Chepurnov, A; Chernyavskiy, M; Choi, K-Y; Chumakov, A; Ciambrone, P; Cicero, V; Congedo, L; Cornelis, K; Cristinziani, M; Crupano, A; Dallavalle, GM; Datwyler, A; D'Ambrosio, N; D'Appollonio, G; De Asmundis, R; De Carvalho Saraiva, J; De Lellis, G; De Magistris, M; De Roeck, A; De Serio, M; De Simone, D; Dedenko, L; Dergachev, P; Di Crescenzo, A; Di Giulio, L; Di Marco, N; Dib, C; Dijkstra, H; Dmitrenko, V; Dmitrievskiy, S; Dougherty, LA; Dolmatov, A; Domenici, D; Donskov, S; Drohan, V; Dubreuil, A; Durhan, O; Ehlert, M; Elikkaya, E; Enik, T; Etenko, A; Fabbri, F; Fedin, O; Fedotovs, F; Felici, G; Ferrillo, M; Ferro-Luzzi, M; Filippov, K; Fini, RA; Fonte, P; Franco, C; Fraser, M; Fresa, R; Froeschl, R; Fukuda, T; Galati, G; Gall, J; Gatignon, L; Gavrilov, G; Gentile, V; Goddard, B; Golinka-Bezshyyko, L; Golovatiuk, A; Golubkov, D; Golutvin, A; Gorbounov, P; Gorbunov, D; Gorbunov, S; Gorkavenko, V; Gorshenkov, M; Grachev, V; Grandchamp, AL; Graverini, E; Grenard, J-L; Grenier, D; Grichine, V; Gruzinskii, N; Guler, AM; Guz, Y; Haefeli, GJ; Hagner, C; Hakobyan, H; Harris, IW; Van Herwijnen, E; Hessler, C; Hollnagel, A; Hosseini, B; Hushchyn, M; Iaselli, G; Iuliano, A; Jacobsson, R; Jokovic, D; Jonker, M; Kadenko, I; Kain, V; Kaiser, B; Kamiscioglu, C; Karpenkov, D; Kershaw, K; Khabibullin, M; Khalikov, E; Khaustov, G; Khoriauli, G; Khotyantsev, A; Kim, YG; Kim, V; Kitagawa, N; Ko, J-W; Kodama, K; Kolesnikov, A; Kolev, D; Kolosov, V; Komatsu, M; Kono, A; Konovalova, N; Kormannshaus, S; Korol, I; Korol'ko, I; Korzenev, A; Kostyukhin, V; Platia, EK; Kovalenko, S; Krasilnikova, I; Kudenko, Y; Kurbatov, E; Kurbatov, P; Kurochka, V; Kuznetsova, E; Lacker, HM; Lamont, M; Lanfranchi, G; Lantwin, O; Lauria, A; Lee, KS; Lee, KY; Levy, J-M; Loschiavo, VP; Lopes, L; Sola, EL; Lyubovitskij, V; Maalmi, J; Magnan, A; Maleev, V; Malinin, A; Manabe, Y; Managadze, AK; Manfredi, M; Marsh, S; Marshall, AM; Mefodev, A; Mermod, P; Miano, A; Mikado, S; Mikhaylov, Y; Milstead, DA; Mineev, O; Montanari, A; Montesi, MC; Morishima, K; Movchan, S; Muttoni, Y; Naganawa, N; Nakamura, M; Nakano, T; Nasybulin, S; Ninin, P; Nishio, A; Novikov, A; Obinyakov, B; Ogawa, S; Okateva, N; Opitz, B; Osborne, J; Ovchynnikov, M; Owtscharenko, N; Owen, PH; Pacholek, P; Paoloni, A; Park, BD; Pastore, A; Patel, M; Pereyma, D; Perillo-Marcone, A; Petkov, GL; Petridis, K; Petrov, A; Podgrudkov, D; Poliakov, V; Polukhina, N; Prieto, JP; Prokudin, M; Prota, A; Quercia, A; Rademakers, A; Rakai, A; Ratnikov, F; Rawlings, T; Redi, F; Ricciardi, S; Rinaldesi, M; Rodin, V; Robbe, P; Cavalcante, ABR; Roganova, T; Rokujo, H; Rosa, G; Rovelli, T; Ruchayskiy, O; Ruf, T; Samoylenko, V; Samsonov, V; Galan, FS; Diaz, PS; Ull, AS; Saputi, A; Sato, O; Savchenko, ES; Schliwinski, JS; Schmidt-Parzefall, W; Serra, N; Sgobba, S; Shadura, O; Shakin, A; Shaposhnikov, M; Shatalov, P; Shchedrina, T; Shchutska, L; Shevchenko, V; Shibuya, H; Shihora, L; Shirobokov, S; Shustov, A; Silverstein, SB; Simone, S; Simoniello, R; Skorokhvatov, M; Smirnov, S; Sohn, JY; Sokolenko, A; Solodko, E; Starkov, N; Stoel, L; Stramaglia, ME; Sukhonos, D; Suzuki, Y; Takahashi, S; Tastet, JL; Teterin, P; Naing, ST; Timiryasov, I; Tioukov, V; Tommasini, D; Torii, M; Tosi, N; Treille, D; Tsenov, R; Ulin, S; Ursov, E; Ustyuzhanin, A; Uteshev, Z; Vankova-Kirilova, G; Vannucci, F; Venturi, V; Vilchinski, S; Vincke, H; Visone, C; Vlasik, K; Volkov, A; Voronkov, R; Van Waasen, S; Wanke, R; Wertelaers, P; Williams, O; Woo, J-K; Wurm, M; Xella, S; Yilmaz, D; Yilmazer, AU; Yoon, CS; Zaytsev, Y; Zimmerman, J |
| Source: |
11 ; 1 |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Verlag (Germany) |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Imperial College London: Spiral |
| Subject Terms: |
Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Physics; Particles & Fields; 0202 Atomic; Molecular; Nuclear; Particle and Plasma Physics; 0206 Quantum Physics; Nuclear & Particles Physics |
| Description: |
The SHiP experiment is proposed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. About 1011 muons per spill will be produced in the dump. To design the experiment such that the muon-induced background is minimized, a precise knowledge of the muon spectrum is required. To validate the muon flux generated by our Pythia and GEANT4 based Monte Carlo simulation (FairShip), we have measured the muon flux emanating from a SHiP-like target at the SPS. This target, consisting of 13 interaction lengths of slabs of molybdenum and tungsten, followed by a 2.4 m iron hadron absorber was placed in the H4 400 GeV/c proton beam line. To identify muons and to measure the momentum spectrum, a spectrometer instrumented with drift tubes and a muon tagger were used. During a 3-week period a dataset for analysis corresponding to (3.27±0.07) × 1011 protons on target was recorded. This amounts to approximatively 1% of a SHiP spill. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields; http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79888 |
| DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7788-y |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79888; https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7788-y |
| Rights: |
© CERN for the benefit of the SHiP collaboration 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1EA9866E |
| Database: |
BASE |