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<a href="http://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Carli%2C%20Christian&ln=it">Carli, Christian</a> (CERN) ; <a href="http://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Ahdida%2C%20Claudia&ln=it">Ahdida, Claudia</a> (CERN) ; <a href="http://cds.cern.ch/search?f=author&p=Manczak%2C%20Jerzy&ln=it">Manczak, Jerzy</a> (CERN)</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Publication </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">2024</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Number of pages </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">4</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> In: </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEPR27"><i>JACoW IPAC</i> 2024 (2024) WEPR27</a> </a></td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> In: </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="http://cds.cern.ch/record/2903046">15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2024)</a>, Nashville, TN, United States, 19 - 24 May 2024, pp.WEPR27</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> DOI </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEPR27" title="DOI" target="_blank">10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEPR27</a> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Subject category </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">Accelerators and Storage Rings</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Abstract </td><td style="padding-left:5px;">During the operation of a muon collider in an underground tunnel, most circulating muons decay into an electron (or positron) and a neutrino-antineutrino pair, resulting in a narrow disk of high-energy neutrinos emitted radially in the collider plane and emerging on the Earth’s surface at distances of several km. Thus, dedicated studies are required to assess any potential radiation protection risks to the public due to the interaction of such neutrinos near the surface. This work presents a set of FLUKA Monte Carlo simulations aimed at characterizing the radiation showers generated by the interactions of high-energy neutrinos from TeV-scale muon decays in a reference sample of soil. The results are expressed in terms of effective dose in soil at different distances from the muon decay, quantifying the peak dose and the width of the radiation cone, for beam energies of 1.5 TeV and 5 TeV. The implications of these results for realistic muon collider scenarios are discussed, along with possible methods to mitigate the local neutrino flux.</td></tr> <tr><td class="formatRecordLabel"> Copyright/License </td><td style="padding-left:5px;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">CC-BY-4.0</a></td></tr> </table> <br/>Corresponding record in: <a href="http://inspirehep.net/record/2812221">Inspire</a> <small> </small> <br/> <br/><br/><div align="right"><div style="padding-bottom:2px;padding-top:30px;"><span class="moreinfo" style="margin-right:10px;"> <a href="" class="moreinfo">Back to search</a> </span></div></div> <div class="bottom-left-folded"><div class="recordlastmodifiedbox" style="position:relative;margin-left:1px"> Record creato 2024-10-06, modificato l'ultima volta il 2024-10-06</div></div> <div class="bottom-right-folded" style="text-align:right;padding-bottom:2px;"> <span class="moreinfo" style="margin-right:10px;"><a href="/search?ln=it&p=recid%3A2912496&rm=wrd" class="moreinfo">Record simili</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <br/> <br /> <div class="detailedrecordminipanel"> <div class="top-left"></div><div class="top-right"></div> <div class="inside"> <div id="detailedrecordminipanelfile" style="width:33%;float:left;text-align:center;margin-top:0"> <div><small class="detailedRecordActions">Testo completo:</small> <br /><a href="/record/2912496/files/document.pdf"><img style="border:none" src="/img/file-icon-text-34x48.gif" alt="Scarica documento" /><br />PDF</a><br /></div> </div> <div id="detailedrecordminipanelreview" style="width:30%;float:left;text-align:center"> </div> <div id="detailedrecordminipanelactions" style="width:36%;float:right;text-align:right;"> <ul class="detailedrecordactions"> <li><a href="/yourbaskets/add?ln=it&recid=2912496">Aggiungi ad un cestino personale</a></li> <li>Esporta come <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/hx?ln=it">BibTeX</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/hm?ln=it">MARC</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/xm?ln=it">MARCXML</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/xd?ln=it">DC</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/xe?ln=it">EndNote</a>,  <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/xn?ln=it">NLM</a>, <a style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:normal" href="/record/2912496/export/xw?ln=it">RefWorks</a> </li> </ul> <div style='padding-left: 13px;'>  <div id="bookmark"></div> <div id="bookmark_sciencewise"></div> <style type="text/css"> #bookmark_sciencewise, #bookmark {float: left;} #bookmark_sciencewise li {padding: 2px; width: 25px;} #bookmark_sciencewise ul, #bookmark ul {list-style-image: none;} </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.bookmark.min.js"></script> <style type="text/css">@import "/css/jquery.bookmark.css";</style> <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[ $.bookmark.addSite('sciencewise', 'ScienceWise.info', 'http://cds.cern.ch/img/sciencewise.png', 'en', 'bookmark', 'http://sciencewise.info/bookmarks/cds:2912496/add'); $('#bookmark_sciencewise').bookmark({sites: ['sciencewise']}); $('#bookmark').bookmark({ sites: ['facebook', 'twitter', 'linkedin', 'google_plusone'], icons: '/img/bookmarks.png', url: 'http://cds.cern.ch/record/2912496', addEmail: true, title: "FLUKA simulations of neutrino-induced effective dose at a Muon Collider", description: "During the operation of a muon collider in an underground tunnel, most circulating muons decay into an electron (or positron) and a neutrino-antineutrino pair, resulting in a narrow disk of high-energy neutrinos emitted radially in the collider plane and emerging on the Earth\u2019s surface at distances of several km. 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