The high–energy muon flux at sea level up to 10 TeV derived from an observation of the burst-size spectrum

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S297-S300 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chin ◽  
Y. Hanayama ◽  
T. Hara ◽  
S. Higashi ◽  
T. Kitamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Burst Size ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Size Spectrum ◽  
High Energy Muon ◽  
Relativistic Particles

Bursts produced by high-energy muons in rock have been observed at a depth of 40 m.w.e. underground by the use of two layers of scintillator 20 m2 in area and 2 m apart. The size distribution of bursts with several hundreds to 30 000 relativistic particles was obtained during an observing time of 11 424.13 hours. Following the method of Christy and Kusaka (1941), the energy spectrum of muons up to 10 TeV was derived from the burst-size distribution.

The high-energy muon flux at sea level up to 8 TeV derived from the observed burst size spectrum

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Chin ◽  
Y. Hanayama ◽  
T. Hara ◽  
S. Higashi ◽  
T. Kitamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Burst Size ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Size Spectrum ◽  
High Energy Muon ◽  
8 Tev

The high-energy muon flux at sea level obtained from an observation of the burst-size spectrum

1964 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Higashi ◽  
T. Kitamura ◽  
Y. Watase ◽  
M. Oda ◽  
Y. Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Burst Size ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Size Spectrum ◽  
High Energy Muon

The rate of energy loss of high-energy cosmic ray muons

1963 ◽  
Vol 275 (1362) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Energy Loss ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Nuclear Interaction ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Level Energy ◽  
Muon Spectrum ◽  
The Third ◽  
Muon Mass

The rate of energy loss of muons is examined by com paring the observed depth-intensity relation with that predicted from a knowledge of the sea-level energy spectrum of cosmic ray muons. The evidence for each of the parameters entering into the analysis is assessed and estimates are made of the sea-level muon spectrum up to 10000 GeV and the depth-intensity relation down to 7000 m.w.e. The effect of range-straggling on the underground intensities is considered and shown to be important at depths below 1000 m.w.e. Following previous workers the energy loss relation is written as -d E /d x =1.88+0.077 in E ' m / mc 2 + b E MeV g -1 cm 2 , where E ' m is the maximum transferrable energy in a /i-e collision and m is the muon mass. The first two terms give the contribution from ionization (and excitation) loss and the third term is the combined contribution from pair production, bremsstrahlung and nuclear interaction. The best estimate of the coefficient b from the present work is b = (3.95 + 0.25) x 10 -6 g -1 cm 2 over the energy range 500 to 10000 GeV, which is close to the theoretical value of 4.0 x 10 -6 g -1 cm 2 . It is concluded that there is no evidence for any marked anomaly in the energy loss processes for muons of energies up to 10000 GeV.

scholarly journals Variations of the high energy muon flux and space-time structure of the temperature profile in the atmosphere

2013 ◽  
Vol 409 ◽  
pp. 012231
Author(s):  
M G Kostyuk ◽  
V B Petkov ◽  
R V Novoseltseva ◽  
M M Boliev ◽  
M D Berkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Profile ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Time Structure ◽  
High Energy Muon ◽  
Space Time Structure

Tokyo large air shower project

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S255-S258 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Matano ◽  
M. Nagano ◽  
K. Suga ◽  
G. Tanahashi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Size Spectrum ◽  
Telemetry System ◽  
Simple Experiment ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
Air Shower

A preliminary experiment to detect large air showers by means of radio echoes and to study the high-energy end of the primary cosmic-ray energy spectrum has been started at this Institute. The fundamental idea and the first approach of the experiment are presented. Using the telemetry system between two pairs of a simple scintillation array, which has been constructed to identify and calibrate the showers in the above experiment, the decoherence curve of air showers has been measured between 100 and 1 300 m together with the particle density in each detector. This simple experiment will give the power of the size spectrum above 109.

The high-energy muon flux in air showers from Cygnus X-3

1985 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 491-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Castellina ◽  
B. D’Ettorre Piazzoli ◽  
G. Mannocchi ◽  
P. Picchi ◽  
S. Vernetto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
High Energy Muon

Electromagnetic interactions of high-energy muons

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S361-S364 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Ashton ◽  
R. B. Coats ◽  
D. A. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Electromagnetic Interactions ◽  
Significant Divergence

The nearly horizontal muon flux at sea level has been used to study the interactions of high-energy (34–520 GeV) muons in an iron absorber producing energy transfer in the range 3–240 GeV. No significant divergence from accepted theory has been found.

A Tiny Telescope of Si-Detectors for High Energy Muon Flux Measurement with Electron Rejection

1980 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 272-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. M. Heijne ◽  
P. Jarron ◽  
P. Lazeyras ◽  
W. R. Nelson ◽  
G. R. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Flux Measurement ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
High Energy Muon

scholarly journals Atmospheric muons: experimental aspects

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Cecchini ◽  
M. Spurio
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Systematic Errors ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Lateral Distribution ◽  
Water Ice ◽  
Muon Momentum ◽  
Atmospheric Muon ◽  
Distribution Energy

Abstract. We present a review of atmospheric muon flux and energy spectrum measurements over almost six decades of muon momentum. Sea level and underground/water/ice experiments are considered. Possible sources of systematic errors in the measurements are examined. The characteristics of underground/water muons (muons in bundle, lateral distribution, energy spectrum) are discussed. The connection between the atmospheric muon and neutrino measurements are also reported.

scholarly journals ATMOSPHERIC MUON FLUX AT PEV ENERGIES

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (18n19) ◽  
pp. 3733-3740 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. SINEGOVSKY ◽  
A. A. KOCHANOV ◽  
T. S. SINEGOVSKAYA ◽  
A. MISAKI ◽  
N. TAKAHASHI
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Muon Flux ◽  
Muon Spectrum ◽  
High Energy Muon ◽  
Very High Energy ◽  
Atmospheric Muon ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Very High

In the near future, the energy region above few hundreds of TeV may really be accessible for measurements of the atmospheric muon spectrum with IceCube array. Therefore, one expects that muon flux uncertainties above 50 TeV, related to a poor knowledge of charm production cross-sections and insufficiently examined primary spectra and composition, will be diminished. We give predictions for the very high-energy muon spectrum at sea level, obtained with the three hadronic interaction models, taking into account also the muon contribution due to decays of the charmed hadrons.

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