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most citedFirst Proof of Principle Experiment for Muon Production with Ultrashort High Intensity Laser

18 citations · 23 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

hep-ex2026

Projected Sensitivity to Slow Muonphilic Dark Matter with Accelerator Muon Beams

Rongfeng Zhang, Cheng-en Liu, Ruihu Zhu +9

The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most enduring open questions in modern physics, and muonphilic DM has emerged as a promising scenario that complements traditional…

astro-ph.EP2026

The muon Moonshot: Moon subsurface tomography with upward-going muons

Zimo Hu, Leyun Gao, Zhengyun You +6

We propose a novel muon Moonshot concept for lunar subsurface tomography based on upward-going muons originated from the lunar regolith. Unlike the Earth, the Moon lacks an atmosph…

hep-ph2026

Production of lepton-flavor-violating scalars through resonant positive-muon annihilation on atomic electrons

Jinhong Shen, Youpeng Wu, Zijian Wang +10

We investigate an invisible lepton-flavor-violating scalar with exclusive couplings and study its resonant production via in fixed-target experiments. Since…

physics.ins-det2026

Improving Muon-Scattering Material Identification via Coarse Momentum Encoding and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Yuxin Bao, Zhao Zhang, Pei Yu +7

Cosmic-ray muon scattering has shown considerable potential for detecting nuclear materials and other dense contraband, but practical deployment remains challenging. A major diffic…

hep-ph2026

DREAMuS: Dark matter REsearch with Advanced Muon Source

Xiang Chen, Zejia Lu, Liangwen Chen +13

We propose DREAMuS, a fixed-target experiment at the High Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), to search for muon-philic dark matter mediated by light flavor-violating…

eess.IV2026

U-Net Based Image Enhancement for Short-time Muon Scattering Tomography

Haochen Wang, Pei Yu, Liangwen Chen +6

Muon Scattering Tomography (MST) is a promising non-invasive inspection technique, yet the practical application of short-time MST is hindered by poor image quality due to limited…

hep-ex2025

CANTON- Proposal: A Next-Generation Muon Measurement at Sub-0.1 ppm Precision

Ce Zhang, Yu Xu, On Kim +10

We propose a next-generation precision measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment (muon g-2) at the High Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) in Huizhou, China. W…

hep-ph2025

Search for light Dark Sectors with GeV Muon Beams

Zijian Wang, Leyun Gao, Zhuo Chen +10

Sub-GeV light dark matter often requires new light mediators, such as a dark boson in the gauge theory. We study the search potential for such a boson via…

physics.ins-det2025

Improving Muon Scattering Tomography Performance With A Muon Momentum Measurement Scheme

Pei Yu, Ziwen Pan, Jiajia Zhai +10

Muon imaging, especially muon scattering tomography (MST), has recently garnered significant attention. MST measures the magnitude of muon scattering angles inside an object, which…

physics.ins-det2025

Transfer learning empowers material Z classification with muon tomography

Haochen Wang, Zhao Zhang, Pei Yu +12

Cosmic-ray muon sources exhibit distinct scattering angle distributions when interacting with materials of different atomic numbers (Z values), facilitating the identification of v…

hep-ph2025★ 3 cited

Probing and Knocking with Muons

Leyun Gao, Cheng-en Liu, Qite Li +6

We propose here a set of new methods involving probing and knocking with muons (PKMu). There is a wealth of rich physics to explore with GeV muon beams. Examples include but not li…

physics.acc-ph2025

The Feasibility Study of the GeV-Energy Muon Source Based on HIAF

Yu Xu, Xueheng Zhang, Yuhong Yu +13

Generating a mono-energetic, high-energy muon beam using accelerator facilities can be very attractive for many purposes, for example, improving muon tomography currently limited b…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Quantum state tomography with muons

Leyun Gao, Alim Ruzi, Qite Li +5

Entanglement is a fundamental pillar of quantum mechanics. Probing quantum entanglement and testing Bell inequality with muons can be a significant leap forward, as muon is arguabl…

physics.acc-ph2024★ 18 cited

First Proof of Principle Experiment for Muon Production with Ultrashort High Intensity Laser

Feng Zhang, Li Deng, Yanjie Ge +26

Muons, which play a crucial role in both fundamental and applied physics, have traditionally been generated through proton accelerators or from cosmic rays. With the advent of ultr…