Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 3000 GeV

被引：109

作者：

Achard, P ^{[1
]}

Adriani, O

Aguilar-Benitez, M

van den Akker, M

Alcaraz, J

Alemanni, G

Allaby, J

Aloisio, A

Alviggi, MG

Anderhub, H

Andreev, VP

Anselmo, F

Arefiev, A

Azemoon, T

Aziz, T

Bagnaia, P

Bajo, A

Baksay, G

Baksay, L

Bähr, J

Baldew, SV

Banerjee, S

Barczyk, A

Barillère, R

Bartalini, P

Batalova, N

Battiston, R

Bay, A

Becattini, F

Becker, U

Behner, F

Bellucci, L

Berbeco, R

Berdugo, J

Berges, P

Bertucci, B

Betev, BL

Biasini, M

Biglietti, M

Biland, A

Blaising, JJ

Blyth, SC

Bobbink, GJ

Böhm, A

Boldizsar, L

Borgia, B

Bottai, S

Bourilkov, D

Bourquin, M

机构：

[1] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[3] NIKHEF, Natl Inst High Energy Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands

[4] Univ Amsterdam, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands

[5] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[6] LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, Lab Annecy Vieux Phys Particules, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France

[7] Univ Basel, Inst Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

[8] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA

[9] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China

[10] Acad Sinica, ITP, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China

[11] Humboldt Univ, D-10115 Berlin, Germany

[12] Univ Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy

[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India

[15] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA

[16] Inst Atom Phys, R-75900 Bucharest, Romania

[17] Univ Bucharest, R-75900 Bucharest, Romania

[18] Hungarian Acad Sci, Cent Res Inst Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary

[19] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[20] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India

[21] Univ Debrecen, ATOMKI, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary

[22] Univ Coll Dublin, Dept Expt Phys, Dublin 4, Ireland

[23] Univ Florence, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

[25] CERN, European Lab Particle Phys, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

[26] World Lab, FBLJA Project, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

[27] Univ Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany

[28] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230029, Anhui, Peoples R China

[29] Univ Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[30] Univ Lyon 1, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, IN2P3, CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France

[31] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain

[32] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA

[33] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[34] ITEP, Moscow, Russia

[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80125 Naples, Italy

[36] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80125 Naples, Italy

[37] Univ Cyprus, Dept Phys, Nicosia, Cyprus

[38] Univ Nijmegen, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands

[39] Natl Inst Nucl Phys & High Energy Phys, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands

[40] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 5588585, Japan

[41] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy

[43] Univ Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy

[44] Inst Nucl Phys, St Petersburg, Russia

[45] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-85100 Potenza, Italy

[47] Univ Potenza, I-85100 Potenza, Italy

[48] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[49] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA

[50] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy

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PHYSICS LETTERS B | 2004年 / 598卷 / 1-2期

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D O I：

10.1016/j.physletb.2004.08.003

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The absolute muon flux between 20 and 3000 GeV is measured with the L3 magnetic muon spectrometer for zenith angles ranging from 0degrees to 58degrees. 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.). (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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