Dr David Mahon
- Lecturer in Nuclear & Hadron Physics (Physics & Astronomy)
email:
David.Mahon@glasgow.ac.uk
Physics & Astronomy, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Publications
2023
Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. [Exhibitions]
2022
Clarkson, A., Gardner, S. , Ireland, D. , Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2022) Muon imaging applications for nuclear waste management and decommissioning. Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science, 2022, 256. (doi: 10.31526/jais.2022.256)
2021
Niederleithinger, E. et al. (2021) Muon tomography of the interior of a reinforced concrete block: first experimental proof of concept. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 40(3), 65. (doi: 10.1007/s10921-021-00797-3)
2020
Simpson, A., Clarkson, A., Gardner, S. , Al Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Roe, J., Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2020) Muon tomography for the analysis of in-container vitrified products. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 157, 109033. (doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.109033)
2018
Mahon, D. , Clarkson, A., Gardner, S. , Ireland, D. , Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2018) First-of-a-kind muography for nuclear waste characterization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377(2137), 20180048. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0048) (PMID:30530549)
Yang, G., Clarkson, T., Gardner, S. , Ireland, D. , Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Al Jebali, R., Shearer, C. and Ryan, M. (2018) Novel muon imaging techniques. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377, 20180062. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0062) (PMID:30530538)
Yang, G.L., Clarkson, A., Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Ryan, M. and Gardner, S. (2018) Muon Imaging for Safeguards Application. In: Symposium on International Safeguards: Building Future Safeguards Capabilities, Vienna, Austria, 5-8 Nov 2018,
2017
D’Alessandro, R. et al. (2017) Muography applied to nuclear waste storage sites. Annals of Geophysics, 60(1), S0106. (doi: 10.4401/ag-7381)
2016
Airapetian, A. et al. (2016) Erratum to: Spin density matrix elements in exclusive ω electroproduction on 1H and 2H targets at 27.5 GeV beam energy. European Physical Journal C, 76(3), 162. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3996-x)
2015
Airapetian, A. et al. (2015) Spin density matrix elements in exclusive ω electroproduction on 1H and 2H targets at 27.5 GeV beam energy. European Physical Journal C, 74(11), 3110. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3110-1)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2015) Bose–Einstein correlations in hadron-pairs from lepto-production on nuclei ranging from hydrogen to xenon. European Physical Journal C, 75(8), 361. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3566-7)
Ambrosino, F. et al. (2015) Assessing the feasibility of interrogating nuclear waste storage silos using cosmic-ray muons. Journal of Instrumentation, 10(6), T06005. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/06/T06005)
Akopov, N. et al. (2015) Pentaquark Θ+ search at HERMES. Physical Review D, 91(5), 057101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.057101)
Clarkson, A. et al. (2015) Characterising encapsulated nuclear waste using cosmic-ray muon tomography. Journal of Instrumentation, 10, P03020. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/03/P03020)
Clarkson, A., Ireland, D. G. , Al Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Lumsden, S., Mahon, D. , Mountford, D., Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2015) Characterising Encapsulated Nuclear Waste Using Cosmic-ray Muon Tomography (MT). In: 2015 4th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), Lisbon, Portugal, 20-24 Apr 2015, ISBN 9781479999187 (doi: 10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465529)
Yang, G. et al. (2015) Application of Muon Tomography to Encapsulated Nuclear Waste. In: 12th IEEE International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments (ICEMI 2015), Qingdao, China, 16-18 Jul 2015, pp. 1359-1362. ISBN 9781479970711 (doi: 10.1109/ICEMI.2015.7494465)
2014
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Transverse polarization of Λ hyperons from quasireal photoproduction on nuclei. Physical Review D, 90, 072007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072007)
Clarkson, A. et al. (2014) GEANT4 simulation of a scintillating-fibre tracker for the cosmic-ray muon tomography of legacy nuclear waste containers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 746, pp. 64-73. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.02.019)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Reevaluation of the parton distribution of strange quarks in the nucleon. Physical Review D, 89(9), 097101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.097101)
Clarkson, A. et al. (2014) The design and performance of a scintillating-fibre tracker for the cosmic-ray muon tomography of legacy nuclear waste containers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 745, pp. 138-149. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.01.062)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Transverse target single-spin asymmetry in inclusive electroproduction of charged pions and kaons. Physics Letters B, 728, pp. 183-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.11.021)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Beam-helicity asymmetry in associated electroproduction of real photons ep → eγπN in the Δ-resonance region. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(1), p. 77. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)077)
Kaiser, R. et al. (2014) A Prototype Scintillating Fibre Tracker for the Cosmic-Ray Muon Tomography of Legacy Nuclear Waste Containers. In: INPC 2013 International Nuclear Physics Conference, Florence, Italy, 2-7 Jun 2013, (doi: 10.1051/epjconf/20146610005)
2013
Mahon, D.F. et al. (2013) A Prototype Scintillating-Fibre Tracker for the Cosmic-Ray Muon Tomography of Legacy Nuclear Waste Containers. In: 13th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna, Austria, 11-15 Feb 2013, pp. 408-411. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.119)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2013) The HERMES recoil detector. Journal of Instrumentation, 8(05), P05012. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05012)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2013) Multiplicities of charged pions and kaons from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering by the proton and the deuteron. Physical Review D, 87(7), Art. 074029. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.074029)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2013) Azimuthal distributions of charged hadrons, pions, and kaons produced in deep-inelastic scattering off unpolarized protons and deuterons. Physical Review D, 87(1), Art. 012010. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.012010)
2012
Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Beam-helicity asymmetry arising from deeply virtual compton scattering measured with kinematically complete event reconstruction. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 42. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)042)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Beam-helicity and beam-charge asymmetries associated with deeply virtual Compton scattering on the unpolarised proton. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 32. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)032)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Measurement of the virtual-photon asymmetry A 2 and the spin-structure function g 2 of the proton. European Physical Journal C, 72(1921), (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1921-5)
2011
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Measurement of double-spin asymmetries associated with deeply virtual Compton scattering on a transversely polarized hydrogen target. Physics Letters B, 704(1-2), pp. 15-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.067)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Multidimensional study of hadronization in nuclei. European Physical Journal A, 47(113), (doi: 10.1140/epja/i2011-11113-5)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Inclusive measurements of inelastic electron and positron scattering from unpolarized hydrogen and deuterium targets. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(126), (doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)126)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries associated with deeply virtual Compton scattering on a longitudinally polarized deuterium target. Nuclear Physics B, 842(3), pp. 265-298. (doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.09.010)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Ratios of helicity amplitudes for exclusive ρ 0 electroproduction. European Physical Journal C, 71(1609), (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1609-2)
2010
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Effects of transversity in deep-inelastic scattering by polarized protons. Physics Letters B, 693(1), pp. 11-16. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.08.012)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Transverse momentum broadening of hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on nuclei. Physics Letters B, 684(2-3), pp. 114-118. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.01.020)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Search for a two-photon exchange contribution to inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. Physics Letters B, 682(4-5), pp. 351-354. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.11.041)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Nuclear-mass dependence of azimuthal beam-helicity and beam-charge asymmetries in deeply virtual Compton scattering. Physical Review C, 81(035202), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.81.035202)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Exclusive leptoproduction of real photons on a longitudinally polarised hydrogen target. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010(6), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)019)
2008
Airapetian, A. et al. (2008) Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries with respect to both beam charge and transverse target polarization in exclusive electroproduction of real photons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(6), 066. (doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/066)
Articles
Clarkson, A., Gardner, S. , Ireland, D. , Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2022) Muon imaging applications for nuclear waste management and decommissioning. Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science, 2022, 256. (doi: 10.31526/jais.2022.256)
Niederleithinger, E. et al. (2021) Muon tomography of the interior of a reinforced concrete block: first experimental proof of concept. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 40(3), 65. (doi: 10.1007/s10921-021-00797-3)
Simpson, A., Clarkson, A., Gardner, S. , Al Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Roe, J., Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2020) Muon tomography for the analysis of in-container vitrified products. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 157, 109033. (doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.109033)
Mahon, D. , Clarkson, A., Gardner, S. , Ireland, D. , Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2018) First-of-a-kind muography for nuclear waste characterization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377(2137), 20180048. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0048) (PMID:30530549)
Yang, G., Clarkson, T., Gardner, S. , Ireland, D. , Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Al Jebali, R., Shearer, C. and Ryan, M. (2018) Novel muon imaging techniques. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377, 20180062. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0062) (PMID:30530538)
D’Alessandro, R. et al. (2017) Muography applied to nuclear waste storage sites. Annals of Geophysics, 60(1), S0106. (doi: 10.4401/ag-7381)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2016) Erratum to: Spin density matrix elements in exclusive ω electroproduction on 1H and 2H targets at 27.5 GeV beam energy. European Physical Journal C, 76(3), 162. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3996-x)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2015) Spin density matrix elements in exclusive ω electroproduction on 1H and 2H targets at 27.5 GeV beam energy. European Physical Journal C, 74(11), 3110. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3110-1)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2015) Bose–Einstein correlations in hadron-pairs from lepto-production on nuclei ranging from hydrogen to xenon. European Physical Journal C, 75(8), 361. (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3566-7)
Ambrosino, F. et al. (2015) Assessing the feasibility of interrogating nuclear waste storage silos using cosmic-ray muons. Journal of Instrumentation, 10(6), T06005. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/06/T06005)
Akopov, N. et al. (2015) Pentaquark Θ+ search at HERMES. Physical Review D, 91(5), 057101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.057101)
Clarkson, A. et al. (2015) Characterising encapsulated nuclear waste using cosmic-ray muon tomography. Journal of Instrumentation, 10, P03020. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/03/P03020)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Transverse polarization of Λ hyperons from quasireal photoproduction on nuclei. Physical Review D, 90, 072007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072007)
Clarkson, A. et al. (2014) GEANT4 simulation of a scintillating-fibre tracker for the cosmic-ray muon tomography of legacy nuclear waste containers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 746, pp. 64-73. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.02.019)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Reevaluation of the parton distribution of strange quarks in the nucleon. Physical Review D, 89(9), 097101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.097101)
Clarkson, A. et al. (2014) The design and performance of a scintillating-fibre tracker for the cosmic-ray muon tomography of legacy nuclear waste containers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 745, pp. 138-149. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.01.062)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Transverse target single-spin asymmetry in inclusive electroproduction of charged pions and kaons. Physics Letters B, 728, pp. 183-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.11.021)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2014) Beam-helicity asymmetry in associated electroproduction of real photons ep → eγπN in the Δ-resonance region. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(1), p. 77. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)077)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2013) The HERMES recoil detector. Journal of Instrumentation, 8(05), P05012. (doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05012)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2013) Multiplicities of charged pions and kaons from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering by the proton and the deuteron. Physical Review D, 87(7), Art. 074029. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.074029)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2013) Azimuthal distributions of charged hadrons, pions, and kaons produced in deep-inelastic scattering off unpolarized protons and deuterons. Physical Review D, 87(1), Art. 012010. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.012010)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Beam-helicity asymmetry arising from deeply virtual compton scattering measured with kinematically complete event reconstruction. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 42. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)042)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Beam-helicity and beam-charge asymmetries associated with deeply virtual Compton scattering on the unpolarised proton. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012, 32. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)032)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2012) Measurement of the virtual-photon asymmetry A 2 and the spin-structure function g 2 of the proton. European Physical Journal C, 72(1921), (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1921-5)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Measurement of double-spin asymmetries associated with deeply virtual Compton scattering on a transversely polarized hydrogen target. Physics Letters B, 704(1-2), pp. 15-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.067)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Multidimensional study of hadronization in nuclei. European Physical Journal A, 47(113), (doi: 10.1140/epja/i2011-11113-5)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Inclusive measurements of inelastic electron and positron scattering from unpolarized hydrogen and deuterium targets. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(126), (doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)126)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries associated with deeply virtual Compton scattering on a longitudinally polarized deuterium target. Nuclear Physics B, 842(3), pp. 265-298. (doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.09.010)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2011) Ratios of helicity amplitudes for exclusive ρ 0 electroproduction. European Physical Journal C, 71(1609), (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1609-2)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Effects of transversity in deep-inelastic scattering by polarized protons. Physics Letters B, 693(1), pp. 11-16. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.08.012)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Transverse momentum broadening of hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on nuclei. Physics Letters B, 684(2-3), pp. 114-118. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.01.020)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Search for a two-photon exchange contribution to inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. Physics Letters B, 682(4-5), pp. 351-354. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.11.041)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Nuclear-mass dependence of azimuthal beam-helicity and beam-charge asymmetries in deeply virtual Compton scattering. Physical Review C, 81(035202), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.81.035202)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2010) Exclusive leptoproduction of real photons on a longitudinally polarised hydrogen target. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010(6), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)019)
Airapetian, A. et al. (2008) Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries with respect to both beam charge and transverse target polarization in exclusive electroproduction of real photons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(6), 066. (doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/066)
Conference Proceedings
Yang, G.L., Clarkson, A., Kaiser, R. , Mahon, D. , Ryan, M. and Gardner, S. (2018) Muon Imaging for Safeguards Application. In: Symposium on International Safeguards: Building Future Safeguards Capabilities, Vienna, Austria, 5-8 Nov 2018,
Clarkson, A., Ireland, D. G. , Al Jebali, R., Kaiser, R. , Lumsden, S., Mahon, D. , Mountford, D., Ryan, M., Shearer, C. and Yang, G. (2015) Characterising Encapsulated Nuclear Waste Using Cosmic-ray Muon Tomography (MT). In: 2015 4th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), Lisbon, Portugal, 20-24 Apr 2015, ISBN 9781479999187 (doi: 10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465529)
Yang, G. et al. (2015) Application of Muon Tomography to Encapsulated Nuclear Waste. In: 12th IEEE International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments (ICEMI 2015), Qingdao, China, 16-18 Jul 2015, pp. 1359-1362. ISBN 9781479970711 (doi: 10.1109/ICEMI.2015.7494465)
Kaiser, R. et al. (2014) A Prototype Scintillating Fibre Tracker for the Cosmic-Ray Muon Tomography of Legacy Nuclear Waste Containers. In: INPC 2013 International Nuclear Physics Conference, Florence, Italy, 2-7 Jun 2013, (doi: 10.1051/epjconf/20146610005)
Mahon, D.F. et al. (2013) A Prototype Scintillating-Fibre Tracker for the Cosmic-Ray Muon Tomography of Legacy Nuclear Waste Containers. In: 13th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna, Austria, 11-15 Feb 2013, pp. 408-411. (doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.119)
Exhibitions
Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. [Exhibitions]