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physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

Light simulation in plastic scintillator strip with embedded wavelength shifting fiber

Zafar Usubov

The simulation study of the light yield and attenuation in the plastic scintillator was performed. The wavelength shifting fiber readout was embedded in the grooves machined along…

physics.ins-det2018★ 5 cited

The Mu2e calorimeter: quality assurance of production crystals and SiPMs

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +34

The Mu2e calorimeter is composed of two disks each containing 1348 pure CsI crystals, each crystal read out by two arrays of 6x6 mm2 monolithic SiPMs. The experimental requirements…

physics.ins-det2018★ 14 cited

Quality Assurance on Un-Doped CsI Crystals for the Mu2e Experiment

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +34

The Mu2e experiment is constructing a calorimeter consisting of 1,348 undoped CsI crystals in two disks. Each crystal has a dimension of 34 x 34 x 200 mm, and is readout by a large…

physics.ins-det2018★ 30 cited

Design and status of the Mu2e crystal calorimeter

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +32

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavour violating (CLFV) conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus, with a…

physics.ins-det2018★ 10 cited

The Mu2e Calorimeter Final Technical Design Report

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +37

Since the first version of the Mu2e TDR released at the beginning of 2015, the Mu2e Calorimeter system has undergone a long list of changes to arrive to its final design. These cha…

physics.ins-det2018★ 17 cited

Expression of Interest for Evolution of the Mu2e Experiment

F. Abusalma, D. Ambrose, A. Artikov +124

We propose an evolution of the Mu2e experiment, called Mu2e-II, that would leverage advances in detector technology and utilize the increased proton intensity provided by the Fermi…

physics.ins-det2017

Quality Assurance on a custom SiPMs array for the Mu2e experiment

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +32

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the coherent conversion on aluminum atoms. The detector system consists of a straw tube tracker and a crystal calorimeter.…

physics.ins-det2017★ 6 cited

Light yield and radiation hardness studies of scintillator strips with a filler

A. Artikov, V. Baranov, Yu. Budagov +9

Detectors based on polystyrene scintillator strips with WLS fiber readout are widely used to register charged particles in many high-energy physics experiments. The fibers are plac…

physics.ins-det2017★ 17 cited

Measurement of the energy and time resolution of a undoped CsI + MPPC array for the Mu2e experiment

O. Atanova, M. Cordelli, G. Corradi +17

This paper describes the measurements of energy and time response and resolution of a 3 x 3 array made of undoped CsI crystals coupled to large area Hamamatsu Multi Pixel Photon Co…

physics.ins-det2017★ 7 cited

The calorimeter of the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +34

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab looks for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) improving by 4 orders of magnitude the current experimental sensitivity for the muon to electron co…

physics.ins-det2016★ 30 cited

Design and status of the Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +33

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab aims at measuring the neutrinoless conversion of a negative muon into an electron and reach a single event sensitivity of 2.5x10^{-17} after three y…

physics.ins-det2016★ 3 cited

Design, status and test of the Mu2e crystal calorimeter

N. Atanov, V. Baranov, J. Budagov +33

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavor violating neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a aluminum nucleus. Th…

physics.ins-det2016★ 1 cited

Scintillation light simulation in big-sized BaF and pure CsI crystals

Zafar Usubov

We have investigated scintillation light distribution in BaF and pure CsI crystals with dimensions 3x3x20 cm using the Geant4 toolkit. The diffuse wrapping material is…

physics.ins-det2015★ 122 cited

Mu2e Technical Design Report

L. Bartoszek, E. Barnes, J. P. Miller +260

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for charged lepton flavor violation via the coherent conversion process mu- N --> e- N with a sensitivity approximately four orders of m…

physics.ins-det2013★ 1 cited

Light output simulation of LYSO single crystal

Zafar Usubov

We used the Geant4 simulation toolkit to estimate the light collection in a LYSO crystal by using cosmic muons and E=105 MeV electrons. The light output as a function of the crysta…

physics.ins-det2012

Electromagnetic calorimeter simulation for future conversion experiments

Zafar Usubov

We examine three dense high-Z scintillating crystals for the conversion experiment using the GEANT4 simulation toolkit. The full energy deposition, albedo, and longitudina…

hep-ph2011

Dijet Signature of Low Mass Strings in the Early LHC Data

Zafar Usubov

We have examined the dijet production at the LHC as a hint to discovery of string Regge excitations of Standard Model particles. If the fundamental string mass scale is in the TeV…

hep-ph2010★ 1 cited

Looking for Squark Pair Production in the Early LHC Data

Z. Usubov

We examine the ability of LHC experiments to observe jets from squark pair production at the center-of-mass energy E=10 TeV and 1 fb of integrated luminosity. We poin…

hep-ph2009

Looking for Large Extra Dimensions in the Early LHC Data

Z. Usubov

We explore the opportunity to look for large extra dimensions in the early stages of the LHC running. The high-E dijet production is analyzed via a novel kinematic variable whe…

hep-ph2009★ 1 cited

LHC Probe of Quark Substructure at the Early Stages of Running

Z. Usubov

We explore the opportunity to look for quark compositeness in the early stages of the LHC running by analyzing high- dijet production. The quark substructure that will manifes…

hep-ex2002★ 180 cited

Recent Progress in Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Research within the Muon Collaboration

M. M. Alsharo'a

We describe the status of our effort to realize a first neutrino factory and the progress made in understanding the problems associated with the collection and cooling of muons tow…

hep-ph2002★ 405 cited

Physics potential and experimental challenges of the LHC luminosity upgrade

F. Gianotti, M. L. Mangano, T. Virdee

We discuss the physics potential and the experimental challenges of an upgraded LHC running at an instantaneous luminosity of 10**35 cm-2s-1. The detector R&D needed to operate ATL…

hep-ex2002★ 16 cited

Impact of Energy and Luminosity upgrades at LHC on the Physics program of ATLAS

G. Azuelos, D. Benchekroun, O. Cakir +14

The impact on the physics capabilities of the ATLAS detector of possible LHC upgrades is discussed. As a benchmark, an increase in the luminosity by a factor of ten is considered.…