1. Measurement of the muon flux for the SHiP experiment
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Ahdida, C., Akmete, A., Albanese, R., Alexandrov, A., Anokhina, A., Aoki, S., Arduini, G., Atkin, E., Azorskiy, N., Back, J.J., Baaltasar Dos Santos, F., Bagulya, A., Baranov, A., Bardou, F., Barker, G.J., Battistin, M., Bauche, J., Bayliss, V., Bay, A, Bencivenni, G., Berdnikov, A.Y., Berdnikov, Y.A., Bertani, M., Betancourt, C., Bezshyiko, I., Bezshyyko, O., Bick, D., Bieschke, S., Blanco, A., Boehm, J., Bogomilov, M., Boiarska, I., Bondarenko, K., Bonivento, W.M., Borburgh, J., Boyarsky, A., Brenner, R., Breton, D., Büscher, 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, G.M., Datwyler, A., D'Ambrosio, N., D'Appollonio, G., De Carvalho Saraiva, J., De Asmundis, R., De Lellis, G., De Magistris, M., De Robertis, G., 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, L.A., 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, R.A., 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, A.L., Graverini, E., Grenard, J.-L, Grenier, D., Grichine, V., Gruzinskii, N., Guler, A.M., Guz, Yu, Haefeli, G.J., Hagner, C., Hakobyan, H., Harris, I.W., Van Herwijnen, E., Hessler, C., Hollnagel, A., Hosseini, B., Hushchyn, M., Iaselli, G., Iuliano, A., Jacobsson, R., Joković, 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, Y.G., Kim, V., Kitagawa, N., Ko, J.-W, Kodama, K., Kolesnikov, A., Kolev, D.I., Kolosov, V., Kono, A., Konovalova, N., Komatsu, M., Kormannshaus, S., Korol, I., Korol'ko, I., Korzenev, A., Kostyukhin, V., Koukovini Platia, E., Kovalenko, S., Krasilnikova, I., Kudenko, Y., Kurbatov, E., Kurbatov, P., Kurochka, V., Kuznetsova, E., Lacker, H.M., Lamont, M., Lanfranchi, G., Lantwin, O., Lauria, A., Lee, K.S., Lee, K.Y., Lévy, J.-M, Loschiavo, V.P., Lopes, L., Lopez Sola, E., Lyubovitskij, V., Maalmi, J., Magnan, A., Maleev, V., Malinin, A., Manabe, Y., Managadze, A.K., Manfredi, M., Marsh, S., Marshall, A.M., Mefodev, A., Mermod, P., Miano, A., Mikado, S., Mikhaylov, Yu, Milstead, D.A., Mineev, O., Montanari, A., Montesi, M.C., 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, P.H., Pacholek, P., Paoloni, A., Park, B.D., Pastore, A., Patel, M., Pereyma, D., Perillo-Marcone, A., Petkov, G.L., Petridis, K., Petrov, A., Podgrudkov, D., Poliakov, V., Polukhina, N., Prieto Prieto, J., Prokudin, M., Prota, A., Quercia, A., Rademakers, A., Rakai, A., Ratnikov, F., Rawlings, T., Redi, F., Ricciardi, S., Rinaldesi, M., Rodin, Volodymyr, Rodin, Viktor, Robbe, P., Rodrigues Cavalcante, A.B., Roganova, T., Rokujo, H., Rosa, G., Rovelli, T., Ruchayskiy, O., Ruf, T., Samoylenko, V., Samsonov, V., Sanchez Galan, F., Santos Diaz, P., Sanz Ull, A., Saputi, A., Sato, O., Savchenko, E.S., Schliwinski, J.S., 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, S.B., Simone, S., Simoniello, R., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, S., Sohn, J.Y., Sokolenko, A., Solodko, E., Starkov, N., Stoel, L., Stramaglia, M.E., Sukhonos, D., Suzuki, Y., Takahashi, S., Tastet, J.L., Teterin, P., Than Naing, S., 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, Heinz, Vincke, Helmut, 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, A.U., Yoon, C.S., Zaytsev, Yu, Zimmermanh, J., Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), SHiP, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,drift tube ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,background ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,CERN SPS ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,particle: interaction ,tungsten: target ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,molybdenum ,PYTHIA ,GEANT ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,p: beam dump ,Fixed target experiments -1 ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,Nuclear Experiment ,numerical calculations: Monte Carlo ,muon: flux ,muon: spectrometer ,muon: momentum spectrum - Abstract
The SHiP experiment will 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 $10^{11}$ 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 three-week period a dataset for analysis corresponding to $(3.27\pm0.07)~\times~10^{11}$ protons on target was recorded. This amounts to approximatively 1\% of a SHiP spill.
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- 2020