The L3+C detector, a unique tool-set to study cosmic rays

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作者
Adriani, O
van den Akker, M
Banerjee, S
Bähr, J
Betev, B
Bourilkov, D
Bottai, S
Bobbink, G
Cartacci, A
Chemarin, M
Chen, G
Chen, HS
Chiarusi, T
Dai, CJ
Ding, LK
Duran, I
Faber, G
Fay, J
Grabosch, HJ
Groenstege, H
Guo, YN
Gupta, S
Haller, C
Hayashi, Y
He, ZX
Hebbeker, T
Hofer, H
Hoferjun, H
Huo, AX
Ito, N
Jing, CL
Jones, L
Kantserov, V
Kawakami, S
Kittel, W
König, AC
Kok, E
Korn, A
Kuang, HH
Kuijpers, J
de Guevara, PL
Le Coultre, P
Lei, Y
Leich, H
Leiste, R
Li, D
Li, L
Li, ZC
Liu, ZA
Liu, HT
机构
[1] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 558, Japan
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[3] Univ Florence, Florence, Italy
[4] Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[5] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[6] DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
[7] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, LHP, Zurich, Switzerland
[8] NIKHEF H, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[9] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[10] Acad Sinica, IHEP, Beijing, Peoples R China
[11] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[12] Acad Sinica, ITP, Beijing, Peoples R China
[13] Humboldt Univ, Berlin, Germany
[14] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[15] Univ Utrecht, NL-3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands
[16] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[17] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
关键词
L3+C detector; cosmic rays; muon spectrum; astroparticle physics;
D O I
10.1016/S0168-9002(02)00479-5
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The L3 detector at the CERN electron-positron collider, LEP, has been employed for the study of cosmic ray muons. The muon spectrometer of L3 consists of a set of high-precision drift chambers installed inside a magnet with a volume of about 1000 m(3) and a field of 0.5 T, Muon momenta are measured with a resolution of a few percent at 50 GeV. The detector is located under 30 m of overburden, A scintillator air shower array of 54 in by 30 m is installed on the roof of the surface hall above L3 in order to estimate the energy and the core position of the shower associated with a sample of detected muons. Thanks to the unique properties of the L3 + C detector, muon research topics relevant to various current problems in cosmic ray and particle astrophysics can he studied. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:209 / 225
页数:17
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