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The second knee observed in the local muon density spectra at various zenith angles

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-01-25 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

Local muon density spectra (LMDS) at various zenith angles have been reconstructed from the data of two detectors of the Experimental complex NEVOD. The inclined muon bundles at the ground level were detected with the coordinate detector DECOR, and for the near-vertical direction with the calibration telescope system (CTS) of the Cherenkov water detector. In comparison with the earlier DECOR results, the experimental statistics has been increased by 2-3 times for different ranges of zenith angle and muon bundle multiplicity and is now based on about 40,000 h of the setup operation. The live time of measurements with CTS is about 12,000 h. It is found with both setups that the slope of LMDS is increasing above the primary energy of about 1017 eV. The details of the experiment and data analysis are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1701.06759,
  title  = {The second knee observed in the local muon density spectra at various zenith angles},
  author = {R. P. Kokoulin and M. B. Amelchakov and N. S. Barbashina and A. G. Bogdanov and D. V. Chernov and L. I. Dushkin and S. S. Khokhlov and V. A. Khomyakov and V. V. Kindin and K. G. Kompaniets and A. A. Petrukhin and V. V. Shutenko and I. I. Yashin and E. A. Yurina and G. Mannocchi and G. Trinchero and O. Saavedra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06759},
  year   = {2017}
}

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XXV ECRS 2016 Proceedings - eConf C16-09-04.3