MUON BUNDLES FROM COSMIC-RAY MULTI-W PHENOMENA

被引:9
作者
MORRIS, DA
ROSENFELD, R
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
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10.1103/PhysRevD.44.3530
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The consequences of novel high-energy electroweak phenomena are studied in the context of cosmic-ray physics. The production of many electroweak gauge bosons (congruent-to 30-100) by cosmic rays gives rise to large zenith-angle multimuon events which are free of background. We find detection rates of up to a few events per year for neutrino-induced phenomena in detectors currently under construction.
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页码:3530 / 3542
页数:13
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