Energy spectra of atmospheric muons measured with the CAPRICE98 balloon experiment -: art. no. 072003

被引：38

作者：

Boezio, M

Bonvicini, V

Schiavon, P

Vacchi, A

Zampa, N

Bergström, D

Carlson, P

Francke, T

Hansen, P

Mocchiutti, E

Suffert, M

Hof, M

Kremer, J

Menn, W

Simon, M

Ambriola, M

Bellotti, R

Cafagna, F

Ciacio, F

Circella, M

De Marzo, CN

Papini, P

Piccardi, S

Spillantini, P

Vannuccini, E

Bartalucci, S

Ricci, M

Casolino, M

De Pascale, MP

Morselli, A

Picozza, P

Sparvoli, R

Mitchell, JW

Ormes, JF

Stephens, SA

Streitmatter, RE

Bravar, U

Stochaj, SJ

机构：

[1] Univ Trieste, I-34147 Trieste, Italy

[2] Sez INFN Trieste, I-34147 Trieste, Italy

[3] AlbaNova Univ Ctr SCFAB, Royal Inst Technol KTH, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[4] Ctr Rech Nucl, F-67037 Strasbourg, France

[5] Univ Siegen, D-57068 Siegen, Germany

[6] Univ Florence, I-50125 Florence, Italy

[7] Sez INFN Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy

[8] Univ Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy

[9] Sez INFN Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy

[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy

[11] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy

[12] Sez INFN Roma II, I-00133 Rome, Italy

[13] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[14] New Mexico State Univ, RL Golden Particle Astrophys Lab, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2003年 / 67卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.072003

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum is currently of great interest because of the study of atmospheric neutrinos and the claim of neutrino oscillations made in 1998 by the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration. A measurement of the muon flux is an indirect measure of the neutrino flux. Therefore, it can be used to improve the calculation of the atmospheric neutrino flux, which in turn can be compared with the observed neutrino rates in underground detectors. This article reports a new measurement of the mu(+) and mu(-) spectra at several atmospheric depths in the momentum ranges 0.3-20 GeV/c and 0.3-40 GeV/c, respectively. The data were collected by the balloon-borne experiment CAPRICE98 during the ascent of the payload on 28 May 1998 from Fort Sumner, N. M. The experiment used the NMSU-WIZARD/CAPRICE 98 balloon-borne magnet spectrometer equipped with a gas ring imaging Cherenkov detector and a silicon-tungsten calorimeter.

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