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Measurements of the Muon Component of Extensive Air Showers at 320 m.w.e. underground
- Source :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- The ALEPH detector at LEP has been supplemented with five scintillator telescopes to measure the muon component of cosmic ray air showers underground. The emphasis of the present analysis of a new data set is to measure coincidences over distances up to about 1 km which are sensitive to the forward production of hadronic interactions and the chemical composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range around 10^15 eV. First results indicate that the observed decoherence curve of muons is compatible with a light primary composition and the arrival directions of muons show no obvious clustering in galactic coordinates.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......1874..11f6fa009927c40cf59a00ab5ec0f28f