We provide a comprehensive study of the cosmic-ray muon flux and induced activity as a function of overburden along with a convenient parameterization of the salient fluxes and differential distributions for a suite of underground laboratories ranging in depth from ∼1 to 8 km.w.e.. Particular attention is given to the muon-induced fast neutron activity for the underground sites and we develop a Depth-Sensitivity-Relation to characterize the effect of such background in experiments searching for WIMP dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0512125,
title = {Muon-Induced Background Study for Underground Laboratories},
author = {D. -M. Mei and A. Hime},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0512125},
year = {2009}
}