Absolute measurement of the vertical cosmic ray muon intensity at 3 – 50 GeV/c near sea level

Bateman, B.J.; Cantrell, W. G.; Durda, David Rudolph; Duller, N. M.; Green, P.J.; Jelinek, Al Vincent; Nagy, T. A.; Sheldon, W. R.

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(71)90130-4

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“…The comparison to low energy experiments [38][39][40][41][42][43] gives a good overall agreement with this analysis above about 40 GeV. At lower momenta, a systematic slope difference seems to be present, which corresponds to about three standard deviations of the systematic molasse uncertainty estimated above.…”

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confidence: 81%

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Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 3000 GeV

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The absolute muon flux between 20 and 3000 GeV is measured with the L3 magnetic muon spectrometer for zenith angles ranging from 0 • to 58 • . Due to the large exposure of about 150 m 2 sr d, and the excellent momentum resolution of the L3 muon chambers, a precision of 2.3% at 150 GeV in the vertical direction is achieved.The ratio of positive to negative muons is studied between 20 and 500 GeV, and the average vertical muon charge ratio is found to be 1.285 ± 0.003(stat.) ± 0.019(syst.).

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“…8. Only measurements providing an absolute normalization [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] are taken into account. The data are extrapolated to sea level using the muon flux predictions of the TARGET [20] program.…”

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Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 3000 GeV

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“…Table 1 lists the authors and energy range of the reported absolute vertical intensity measurements. It is also shown if the experiment has been used by other reviews, namely "B" (Bugaev et al, 1998), "H&T" (Hebbeker and Timmermans, 2002) Ayre et al (1975) 20-500 X X Baber et al (1968) 11-810 X X Rastin (1984) 3-3000 X 0.933 X Bateman et al (1971) 10-150 X 0.858 Allkofer et al (1968) 20-1000 X 1. Table 1.…”

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Atmospheric muons: experimental aspects

Cecchini

Spurio

2012

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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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.

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“…As these papers are normalized [27] 10/6 0.822 ± 0.009 0.818 ± 0.007 Kremer 1997 data [27] 13/6 0.831 ± 0.008 0.821 ± 0.007 Table 1: Normalization of datasets with respect to the Bugaev calculation to Rossi [28] we recalculate this normalization point with the reference shape. The data of [21] are normalized to the differential flux at 10 GeV/c. The results of this calculation are shown in the last column of table 1.…”

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A compilation of high energy atmospheric muon data at sea level

Hebbeker

Timmermans

2002

Astroparticle Physics

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We collect and combine all published data on the vertical atmospheric muon flux and the muon charge ratio for muon momenta above 10 GeV. At sea level the world average of the momentum spectra agrees with the flux calculated by E.V. Bugaev et al. within 15 %. The observed shape of the differential flux versus momentum is slightly flatter than predicted in this calculation. The experimental accuracy varies from 7% at 10 GeV to 17% at 1 TeV. The ratio of fluxes of positive to negative muons is found to be constant, at a value of 1.268, with relative uncertainties increasing from approximately 1% at low momenta to about 6% at 300 GeV.

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Absolute measurement of the vertical cosmic ray muon intensity at 3 – 50 GeV/c near sea level

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 3000 GeV

Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 3000 GeV

Atmospheric muons: experimental aspects

A compilation of high energy atmospheric muon data at sea level

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