2019, Ahdida, C., Albanese, R. M., Alexandrov, A., Anokhina, A., Atkin, E., Dmitrenko, V., Etenko, A., Filippov, K., Gavrilov, G., Grachev, V., Kudenko, Y., Novikov, A., Polukhina, N., Samsonov, V., Shustov, A., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, S., Teterin, P., Ulin, S., Uteshev, Z., Vlasik, K., Аткин, Эдуард Викторович, Дмитренко, Валерий Васильевич, Этенко, Александр Владимирович, Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Куденко, Юрий Григорьевич, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна, Шустов, Александр Евгеньевич, Скорохватов, Михаил Дмитриевич, Смирнов, Сергей Юрьевич, Тетерин, Пётр Евгеньевич, Улин, Сергей Евгеньевич, Утешев, Зияэтдин Мухамедович, Власик, Константин Федорович

© 2019 CERN.This paper presents a fast approach to simulating muons produced in interactions of the SPS proton beams with the target of the SHiP experiment. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for new long-lived particles produced in a 400 GeV/c SPS proton beam dump and which travel distances between fifty metres and tens of kilometers. The SHiP detector needs to operate under ultra-low background conditions and requires large simulated samples of muon induced background processes. Through the use of Generative Adversarial Networks it is possible to emulate the simulation of the interaction of 400 GeV/c proton beams with the SHiP target, an otherwise computationally intensive process. For the simulation requirements of the SHiP experiment, generative networks are capable of approximating the full simulation of the dense fixed target, offering a speed increase by a factor of (106). To evaluate the performance of such an approach, comparisons of the distributions of reconstructed muon momenta in SHiP's spectrometer between samples using the full simulation and samples produced through generative models are presented. The methods discussed in this paper can be generalised and applied to modelling any non-discrete multi-dimensional distribution.

2019, Alexeev, V. A., Bagulya, A. V., Volkov, A. E., Gippius, A. A., Grachev, V. M., Polukhina, N. G., Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна

This work was performed within the OLYMPIA experiment on the study of tracks of heavy and superheavy cosmic ray nuclei in olivine crystals from Marjalahti and Eagle Station pallasites. Depth distributions of the track formation rate for heavy cosmic ray nuclei in olivine crystals from pallasites of different pre-atmospheric sizes were obtained. The dependences obtained were used to analyze the data on the track density in olivine crystals from the Marjalahti pallasite. In three crystals, the track distribution with a high density gradient was detected, which indicates a complicated radiation history of the meteorite.

2019, Shustov, A. E., Ulin, S. E., Novikov, A. S., Dmitrenko, V. V., Grachev, V. M., Chernysheva, I. V., Uteshev, Z. M., Vlasik, K. F., Шустов, Александр Евгеньевич, Улин, Сергей Евгеньевич, Дмитренко, Валерий Васильевич, Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Чернышева, Ирина Вячеславовна, Утешев, Зияэтдин Мухамедович, Власик, Константин Федорович

© 2019 SPIE.The description of gamma-spectrometric apparatus "Nuclide" intended for the detection and identification of elements of radioactive space debris is presented. This device is planned to be installed on the "Universat-SOCRAT" spacecraft. The results of estimations of the sensitivity of this equipment depending on the distance to the objects under study are presented.

2019, Abiev, A., Bagulya, A., Chernyavskiy, M., Dashkina, A., Grachev, V., Polukhina, N., Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна

© 2019 by the authors.The paper presents the test experiment to investigate one of UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) world heritage objects, an archaeological site in the Naryn-Kala citadel (Derbent, Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation) hidden under the ground's surface. The function of the site could be revealed by the muon radiography studies. Several nuclear emulsion detectors were exposed for two months inside the site at a depth about 10 m from the modern surface. The use of nuclear emulsions as probing radiation detectors combined with the potential of modern image analysis methods provides for a uniquely high resolution capacity of recording instrumentation and 3D reconstruction of the internal structure of the investigated object. Here we present the experiment and data analysis details and the first results.

2019, Ahdida, C., Albanese, R., Alexandrov, A., Anokhina, A., Atkin, E., Dmitrenko, V., Etenko, A., Filippov, K., Gavrilov, G., Grachev, V., Kudenko, Y., Novikov, A., Polukhina, N., Samsonov, V., Shustov, A., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, S., Teterin, P., Ulin, S., Uteshev, Z., Vlasik, K., Аткин, Эдуард Викторович, Дмитренко, Валерий Васильевич, Этенко, Александр Владимирович, Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Куденко, Юрий Григорьевич, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна, Шустов, Александр Евгеньевич, Скорохватов, Михаил Дмитриевич, Смирнов, Сергей Юрьевич, Тетерин, Пётр Евгеньевич, Улин, Сергей Евгеньевич, Утешев, Зияэтдин Мухамедович, Власик, Константин Федорович

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has shown that the CERN SPS accelerator with its 400 GeV/c proton beam offers a unique opportunity to explore the Hidden Sector [1-3]. The proposed experiment is an intensity frontier experiment which is capable of searching for hidden particles through both visible decays and through scattering signatures from recoil of electrons or nuclei. The high-intensity experimental facility developed by the SHiP Collaboration is based on a number of key features and developments which provide the possibility of probing a large part of the parameter space for a wide range of models with light long-lived super-weakly interacting particles with masses up to O(10) GeV/c(2) in an environment of extremely clean background conditions. This paper describes the proposal for the experimental facility together with the most important feasibility studies. The paper focuses on the challenging new ideas behind the beam extraction and beam delivery, the proton beam dump, and the suppression of beam-induced background.

2022, Aleksandrov, A. B., Vasina, S. G., Galkin, V. I., Grachev, V. M., Konovalov, A. S., Konovalova, N. S., Korolev, P. S., Larionov, A. A., Managadze, A. K., Melnichenko, I. A., Okateva, N. M., Polukhina, N. G., Roganova, T. M., Sadykov, Zh. T., Starkov, N. I., Starkova, E. N., Tioukov, V. E., Chernyavskiy, M. M., Shevchenko, V. I., Shchedrina, T. V., Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна, Шевченко, Владимир Игоревич, Грачев, Виктор Михайлович

A new study of a historical object on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Holy Trinity Danilov Monastery, implemented by the muon radiography is presented. The method is based on the registration of changes in the cosmic muon fluxes during their passage through the object under study. Nuclear photoemulsions with unique spatial and angular resolution having the widest range of applications in experimental nuclear physics were used as experimental equipment. The experiment demonstrates a high efficiency of the method in the search for hidden objects, the presence of which on the territory of the monastery is confirmed by the results obtained. Acknowledgement: В статье нет раздела Acknowledgement

2019, Abiev, A. K., Bagulya, A. V., Chernyavsky, M. M., Dimitrienko, A. A., Grachev, V. M., Polukhina, N. G., Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна

© 2019, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.Cosmic ray muonography is a novel technique for imaging of the internal structures of large natural and industrial objects. It exploits the capability of high energy muons from cosmic rays to penetrate large thicknesses of large subjects to be studied, in order to obtain a density map. It uses muon flux attenuation and absorption in materials of investigated objects. Nuclear emulsions are tracking detectors well suited to be employed in muonography for investigations of inner structure of large objects up to kilometers size, since emulsions have firstly an excellent angular resolution, they are compact and robust, do not require power supply. The muonography methods are applied to study one of UNESCO world heritage objects, the unusual building in the Naryn-Kala citadel hidden underground. The use of nuclear emulsions as probing radiation detectors provides for a uniquely high resolution capacity of recording instrumentation combined with the potential of modern image analysis methods giving 3D reconstruction of the internal structures of the investigated object.

2019, Ahdida, C., Albanese, R., Alexandrov, A., Anokhina, A., Atkin, E., Dmitrenko, V., Etenko, A., Filippov, K., Gavrilov, G., Grachev, V., Kudenko, Y., Novikov, A., Polukhina, N., Samsonov, V., Shustov, A., Skorokhvatov, M., Smirnov, S., Teterin, P., Ulin, S., Uteshev, Z., Vlasik, K., Аткин, Эдуард Викторович, Дмитренко, Валерий Васильевич, Этенко, Александр Владимирович, Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Куденко, Юрий Григорьевич, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна, Шустов, Александр Евгеньевич, Скорохватов, Михаил Дмитриевич, Смирнов, Сергей Юрьевич, Тетерин, Пётр Евгеньевич, Улин, Сергей Евгеньевич, Утешев, Зияэтдин Мухамедович, Власик, Константин Федорович

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between O(50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL's benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP's sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.

2021, Alexandrov, A. B., Chernyavsky, M. M., Galkin, V. I., Goncharova, L. A., Grachev, V. M., Konovalov, A. S., Konovalova, N. S., Korolev, P. S., Larionov, A. A., Managadze, A. K., Melnichenko, I. A., Okateva, N. M., Polukhina, N. G., Roganova, T. M., Sadykov, Zh. T., Shchedrina, T. V., Shevchenko, V. I., Starkov, N. I., Tyukov, V. E., Starkova, E. N., Vasina, S. G., Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна, Шевченко, Владимир Игоревич

One of the modern approaches to solving research and practical problems by studying internal structure of large natural and industrial objects on the base of muon radiography (muography) is presented. A large number of problematic geologically active zones on the Earth surface, the state of which poses a threat to the infrastructure located in them, require constant monitoring. For this purpose, as well as for the study of cultural heritage objects, in particular, when studying their hidden elements or damage, the muography method [1] can be used. The method, which is at testing and initial implementation phase in Russia, enables to solve these problems in an affordable and safe non-invasive way and provides for a threedimensional image of the internal structure of the objects under study without damaging or destroying them. The method is based on analysis of the cosmic muon flux absorption during their passage through the substance of the object under study.

2019, Aleksandrov, A. B., Alekseev, V. A., Bagulya, A. V., Dashkina, A. B., Grachev, V. M., Polukhina, N. G., Грачев, Виктор Михайлович, Полухина, Наталья Геннадьевна

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.The results of the search for tracks of heavy and superheavy nuclei of galactic cosmic rays in the charge range Z = 26 − 129, identified in olivine crystals from Maryalahti and Eagle Station meteorites are presented. The database including characteristics of 21743 tracks, obtained in the OLIMPIA experiment, is currently the largest one within the charge range under study. It includes three tracks of superheavy nuclei with charge 119−6 +10 and a minimum lifetime estimated as several tens of years, which can be considered as a direct experimental validation of the existence of natural superheavy nuclei from the “stability island”.