Jul 6 – 13, 2022
Bologna, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

A Geant4-based simulation study for a preliminary setup of the MUonE experiment

Jul 8, 2022, 7:05 PM
1h 25m
Bologna, Italy

Bologna, Italy

Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi
Poster Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques Poster Session

Speaker

Patrick Asenov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

MUonE is a proposed experiment which aims at an independent and precise determination of the muon g – 2 , based on the measurement of the hadronic contribution to the running of the electromagnetic coupling constant in the space-like region. This can be achieved by measuring with extremely high accuracy the shape of the differential cross section of the μe elastic scattering, using a 160 GeV muon beam available at CERN, off atomic electrons of a light graphite target. Geant4 simulations are required in order to predict the level of noise which will be present in the proposed experiment. For this reason, a preliminary version of the final MUonE setup has been simulated with Geant4 10.7, the latest version containing relevant updated settings. This is the recommended version for the study of MUonE due to its correct estimation of the angular distribution of the e+e- production from muon interactions in the graphite material. In this talk, two related studies utilizing the Geant4 emstandard_opt4 physics list will be presented, one involving direct standalone tests and another one employing simulation and reconstruction using the new FairRoot release with a Geant4 implementation. In both cases, the Geant4 10.7 version has been compared to older versions in terms of energy distributions and angular correlations. Finally, prospects for the comparison of the simulation with the results of future beam tests and test runs will be discussed.

In-person participation Yes

Primary authors

Clara Matteuzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Dimitrios Loukas (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos) Giovanni Abbiendi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Patrick Asenov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Marcin Kucharczyk (IFJ PAN Krakow) Mateusz Goncerz (Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences) Milosz Zdybal (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland) Umberto Marconi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

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