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most citedMeasurement of the production cross-section of positive pions in the collision of 8.9 GeV/c protons on beryllium

81 citations · 651 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

physics.atom-ph2025

First operation of the FAMU experiment at the RIKEN-RAL high intensity muon beam facility

FAMU Collaboration, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +40

The FAMU experiment, supported and funded by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), aims to perform the first…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450

Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…

physics.acc-ph2024

MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391

This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…

physics.ins-det2024★ 5 cited

The muon beam monitor for the FAMU experiment: design, simulation, test and operation

R. Rossini, G. Baldazzi, S. Banfi +35

FAMU is an INFN-led muonic atom physics experiment based at the RIKEN-RAL muon facility at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (United Kingdom). The aim of FAMU is to measure the hype…

physics.acc-ph2024

Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC)

C. Accettura, S. Adrian, R. Agarwal +383

The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) [1] was established in 2020 following the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) and the implemen…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 10 cited

Investigating the Proton Structure: The FAMU experiment

A. Vacchi, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46

The article gives the motivations for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the ground state of muonic hydrogen to explore the properties of the proton at low momentu…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 4 cited

Status of the detector setup for the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL for a precision measurement of the Zemach radius of the proton in muonic hydrogen

R. Rossini, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46

The FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL is a muonic atom experiment with the aim to determine the Zemach radius of the proton by measuring the 1s hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen. T…

hep-ex2023★ 2 cited

Characterisation of a low-momentum high-rate muon beam monitor for the FAMU experiment at the CNAO-XPR beam facility

Riccardo Rossini, Roberto Benocci, Roberto Bertoni +17

The FAMU experiment aims at an indirect measurement of the Zemach radius of the proton. The measurement is carried out on muonic hydrogen atoms produced through the low-momentum (5…

physics.acc-ph2023

Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling

The MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +134

Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams h…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 10 cited

Experimental determination of the energy dependence of the rate of the muon transfer reaction from muonic hydrogen to oxygen for collision energies up to 0.1 eV

M. Stoilov, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +22

We report the first experimental determination of the collision-energy dependence of the muon transfer rate from the ground state of muonic hydrogen to oxygen at near-thermal energ…

physics.acc-ph2023

Towards a Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Dean Adams, Rohit Agarwal +294

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions a…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Multiple Coulomb Scattering of muons in Lithium Hydride

M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +134

Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low materials made in the MuS…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 5 cited

A Muon Collider Facility for Physics Discovery

D. Stratakis, N. Mokhov, M. Palmer +66

Muon colliders provide a unique route to deliver high energy collisions that enable discovery searches and precision measurements to extend our understanding of the fundamental law…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 2 cited

Performance of the MICE diagnostic system

The MICE collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +135

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon coll…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 14 cited

Measurement of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen in the range 70-336 K

C. Pizzolotto, A. Sbrizzi, A. Adamczak +39

The first measurement of the temperature dependence of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen was performed by the FAMU collaboration in 2016. The results provide ev…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 6 cited

First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +132

High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential t…

nucl-ex2019★ 10 cited

First measurement of the temperature dependence of muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen atoms to oxygen

FAMU Collaboration, E. Mocchiutti, A. Adamczak +39

We report the first measurement of the temperature dependence of muon transfer rate from p atoms to oxygen between 100 and 300 K. Data were obtained from the X-ray spectra of de…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 9 cited

First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…

nucl-ex2018★ 2 cited

FAMU: study of the energy dependent transfer rate

FAMU Collaboration, E. Mocchiutti, V. Bonvicini +53

The main goal of the FAMU experiment is the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the 1S state of muonic hydrogen . The physical process behind this exp…

physics.atom-ph2017

First FAMU observation of muon transfer from mu-p atoms to higher-Z elements

FAMU Collaboration, Emiliano Mocchiutti, Valter Bonvicini +54

The FAMU experiment aims to accurately measure the hyperfine splitting of the ground state of the muonic hydrogen atom. A measurement of the transfer rate of muons from hydrogen to…

physics.acc-ph2017★ 5 cited

Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling

MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +129

Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide…

physics.ins-det2016★ 32 cited

Steps towards the hyperfine splitting measurement of the muonic hydrogen ground state: pulsed muon beam and detection system characterization

A. Adamczak, G. Baccolo, D. Bakalov +52

The high precision measurement of the hyperfine splitting of the muonic-hydrogen atom ground state with pulsed and intense muon beam requires careful technological choices both in…

physics.ins-det2015★ 14 cited

Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam

D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +151

The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requ…

physics.ins-det2015★ 12 cited

Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +142

The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at…