Study of single muons with the Large Volume Detector at Gran Sasso Laboratory

Autor: V. S. Berezinsky, V. L. Dadykin, F. Cindolo, E. D. Alyea, L. Periale, P. L. Ghia, Jose Chinellato, P. V. Korchaguin, A. Pesci, P. Picchi, Rosario Nania, G. C. Trinchero, N. Taborgna, M. Basile, V. I. Gurentsov, V. B. Korchaguin, V. F. Yakushev, L. G. Dos Santos, M. Selvi, Marco Aglietta, F. Bersani, M. E. Bertaina, I. Yamamoto, A. Chiavassa, E. V. Korolkova, Pietro Antonioli, Luisa Cifarelli, G. T. Zatsepin, Andrea Contin, F. F. Khalchukov, A. S. Malguin, Giuseppe Iacobucci, Tomonori Wada, G. Bari, A. Zichich, M. Widgoff, R. Bertoni, O. G. Ryazhskaya, N. Inoue, N. Mengotti Silva, F. Gomez, Carlo Vigorito, Carlotta Castagnoli, E. Kemp, S. Vernetto, I. A. Pless, P. Galeotti, F. Grianti, Roy Weinstein, V. A. Kudryavtsev, C. Morello, P. Vallania, G. Navarra, W. Fulgione, A. Turtelli, Antonella Castellina, G. Bruni, R. Granella, G. Cara Romeo, M. Luvisetto, L. Votano, Gabriella Sartorelli, K. Saitoh, S. Tsuji, Giovanni Badino, P. Giusti, T. Massam, R. I. Enikeev, O. Saavedra, V. P. Talochkin
Rok vydání: 2002
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0202006
Popis: The present study is based on the sample of about 3 mln single muons observed by LVD at underground Gran Sasso Laboratory during 36500 live hours from June 1992 to February 1998. We have measured the muon intensity at slant depths from 3 km w.e. to 20 km w.e. Most events are high energy downward muons produced by meson decay in the atmosphere. The analysis of these muons has revealed the power index of pion and kaon spectrum: 2.76 \pm 0.05. The reminders are horizontal muons produced by the neutrino interactions in the rock surrounding LVD. The value of this flux is obtained. The results are compared with Monte Carlo simulations and the world data.
Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in "Physics of Atomic Nuclei"
Databáze: OpenAIRE