An effective analytical method for calculating energy spectra of cosmic-ray muons at large depths of homogeneous media is developed. The method allows to include an arbitrary (decreasing) muon spectrum at the medium boundary and the energy dependence of both discrete (radiative and photonuclear) and continuous (ionization) muon energy losses, with resonable requirements for the high-energy beha...

Narrow muon bundles in underground detectors permit to study muoproduction reactions that take place in the surrounding rock. We analyze the relevance of a QED+QCD reaction, muoproduction of “open charm”. The contribution to double muon events is estimated to be 4% of the one due to QED “trident” process, for an ideal detector located under a rock depth of 3 km water equivalent, and an observat...

Resonance lines broadened by dipolar interactions are a common phenomenon. The best studied cases are the nuclear magnetic resonance lines, for which Van Vleck's [ 1 ] classic analysis gives expressions for the moments of the shape. Recently work on muon spin resonance [2,3] stimulated questions of whether the linewidth depended on the number n of sites over which the muon moved coherently. Yao...

Cosmic-ray muons can be used for imaging of large structures, or high-density objects with high atomic number. The first task can be performed by measurement of muon absorption within very thick material layers, while the second approach is based on muon multiple scattering. However, the muon imaging of small structures with low atomic number and density was not yet solved appropriately. Here w...

Results of the experimental project using ne| ive muon spin rotation at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory are reported. The following ave been discussed briefly, i) The bound muon g factors from the viewpoints of the relativistic and nuclear polarization effects, ii) Strange depolarization phenomena in terms of the difference between the muonic-atom probe and its equivalent nuclear probe iii) Applic...

Much of the April 2004 to do list relating to FFAGs for muon physics, from the workshop held in Vancouver B.C., has been accomplished; either between the workshops or at this meeting. Activities were focused mostly on the few-MeV electron model of a multi-GeV muon accelerator intended for a Neutrino Factory[1] or Muon Collider; the PRISM[2] FFAG for a lepton-flavour violation experiment was als...

In view of their physics goals, future neutrino factories from muon decay aim at an overall flux precision of O(1%) or better. We analytically study the QED radiative corrections to the neutrino differential distributions from muon decay. Kinematic uncertainties due to the divergence of the muon beam are considered as well. The resulting corrections to the neutrino flux turn out to be of order ...

There has been some concern about the unexpected paucity of cosmic high-energy muon neutrinos in detectors probing the energy region beyond 1 PeV. As a possible solution we consider the possibility that some exotic neutrino property is responsible for reducing the muon neutrino flux at high energies from distant sources; specifically, we consider (i) neutrino decay and (ii) neutrinos being pseu...

Based on the bound state description of muon and general relativistic covariant quantum field theory, we illustrate with a simple composite model that the observed deviation of (g − 2)μ can be a demonstration of the substructure of muon and give a constraint on the radius of muon in a light constituent model or the masses of constituents in a heavy constituent model. PACS number: 11.10.-z; 11.1...

Muon spin rotation (µSR) and relaxation has been used to study the local magnetic structure of K3Fe5F15. A collinear F-µ+-F "hydrogen bond-like" symmetric double minimum type complex with a F...F distance of 2.8 Å and a separation between the two minima of 0.8 Å has been found in the paramagnetic phase. The apparent central position of the muon seems to be the result of fast muon tunneling betw...