Measurement of Cosmic-Ray Muon Spectrum and Charge Ratio at Large Zenith Angles in the Momentum Range 100 GeV/cto 10 TeV/cUsing a Magnet Spectrograph

1979 ◽  
Vol 43 (13) ◽  
pp. 974-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Muraki ◽  
Y. Ohashi ◽  
T. Kitamura ◽  
K. Mitsui ◽  
S. Miyake ◽  
...  
1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Muraki ◽  
Y. Kawashima ◽  
T. Kitamura ◽  
S. Matsuno ◽  
K. Mitsui ◽  
...  

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (18) ◽  
pp. 1880-1883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deba Prasad Bhattacharyya

The pion and kaon spectra in the top of the atmosphere have been derived from the satellite data of cosmic ray nucleons by using the Bose-type distribution of secondary mesons produced in the inclusive reactions p + p → π− + X and p + p → K− + X. The derived pion and kaon spectra follow the relations of the form π(Eπ) dEπ = 0.184Eπ−2.6 dEπ and K(Ek) dEk = 0.036 Ek−2.6 dEk. With the help of the diffusion equation for pions and kaons in the atmosphere, the sea level muon spectrum has been derived and the results have been compared with the magnetic spectrograph data of Allkofer, Carstensen, and Dau in the muon momentum range 15–1000 GeV/c. The sea level muon intensity arising from kaon parentage increases with energy.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (26) ◽  
pp. 1667-1670
Author(s):  
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YUQIAN MA

L3 + C is a branch experiment on L3 magnet spectrometer, which is located on the ring of LEP accelerator at CERN. To take the advantage of L3 muon chambers in its low threshold, wide dynamic range and high resolution, the momentum of cosmic ray muons in the range of 15–2000 GeV/c at a shallow depth of 30 m of molasse can be measured precisely. Since 1998, a scintillator detector system, a new fast trigger and DAQ system, and a small air shower array had been established for study the CR muon events independently. Up to August 2000, 8 billion muons and 25 million air shower events had been recorded. The first results for CR muon spectrum and the charge ratio etc. had been obtained.


Author(s):  
D Zimmermann ◽  
C Grupen ◽  
V Kotaidis ◽  
S Luitz ◽  
A Mailov ◽  
...  

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
DP Bhattacharyya ◽  
RK Roychoudhury

The sea level cosmic ray spectrum and muon charge ratio have been estimated by using the energy moments of the cross section for proton-air inelastic collisions. These energy moments have been determined by interpolation from CERN results for proton-nucleus inelastic interactions in pion production. The derived results are compared with previous work.


1966 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1205-1210
Author(s):  
O. C. Allkofer ◽  
E. Kraft

The momentum spectrum of cosmic ray muons and the charge ratio at 5200 m above sea level have been measured. To separate the spectrum of muons from the total spectrum a lead absorber was used. From theoretical models the spectrum of muons is calculated. Good agreement is found between the calculated and measured muon spectrum.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junghyun Bae ◽  
Stylianos Chatzidakis

Abstract Cosmic ray muons have been considered as a non-conventional radiation probe in various applications. To utilize cosmic ray muons in engineering applications, two important quantities, trajectory and momentum, must be known. The muon trajectories are easily reconstructed using two-fold detector arrays with a high spatial resolution. However, precise measurement of muon momentum is difficult to be achieved without deploying large and expensive spectrometers such as solenoid magnets. Here, we propose a new method to estimate muon momentum using multi-layer pressurized gas Cherenkov radiators. This is accurate, portable, compact (< 1m3), and easily coupled with existing muon detectors without the need of bulky magnetic or time-of-flight spectrometers. The results show that not only our new muon spectrometer can measure muon momentum with a resolution of ±0.5 GeV/c in a momentum range of 0.1 to 10.0 GeV/c, but also we can reconstruct cosmic muon spectrum with high accuracy (~90%).


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