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We consider the cosmic muon background for the installations located at shallow depths. We suggest a relatively simple formula for the sea-level muon spectrum, which allows calculate dependencies of the vertical muon intensity and integral…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 L. N. Bogdanova , M. G. Gavrilov , V. N. Kornoukhov , A. S. Starostin

The measurement of the flux of muons produced in cosmic ray air showers is essential for the study of primary cosmic rays. Such measurements are important in extensive air shower detectors to assess the energy spectrum and the chemical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-16 KM3NeT Collaboration

We present the characterization of cosmogenic muon backgrounds for the Colorado Underground Research Institute (CURIE), located in the Edgar Experimental Mine (EEM) in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The CURIE facility at the EEM offers a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-23 Dakota K. Keblbeck , Eric Mayotte , Uwe Greife , Kyle G. Leach , Wouter Van De Pontseele

Cosmic rays are energetic nuclei and elementary particles that originate from stars and intergalactic events. The interaction of these particles with the upper atmosphere produces a range of secondary particles that reach the surface of the…

An effective analytical method for calculating energy spectra of cosmic-ray muons at large depths of homogeneous media is developed. The method allows to include an arbitrary (decreasing) muon spectrum at the medium boundary and the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Naumov , S. I. Sinegovsky , E. V. Bugaev

The vertical sea-level muon spectrum at energies above 1 GeV and the underground/underwater muon intensities at depths up to 18 km w.e. are calculated. The results are particularly collated with a great body of the ground-level,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 E. V. Bugaev , A. Misaki , V. A. Naumov , T. S. Sinegovskaya , S. I. Sinegovsky , N. Takahashi

The COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment has started taking physics data with the goal of performing an independent measurement of the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA. A muon detector was constructed by using plastic…

In this paper parametric formulas are presented to evaluate the flux of atmospheric muons in the range of vertical depth between 1.5 to 5 km of water equivalent (km w.e.) and up to 85^o for the zenith angle. We take into account their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-23 M. Bazzotti , S. Biagi , G. Carminati , S. Cecchini , T. Chiarusi , G. Giacomelli , A. Margiotta , M. Sioli , M. Spurio

We present a review of atmospheric muon flux and energy spectrum measurements over almost six decades of muon momentum. Sea-level and underground/water/ice experiments are considered. Possible sources of systematic errors in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-16 Stefano Cecchini , Maurizio Spurio

A new approach to investigations of ultra-high energy cosmic rays based on the ground-level measurements of the spectra of local density of EAS muons at various zenith angles is considered. Basic features of the local muon density…

The paper describes two Monte Carlo codes dedicated to muon simulations: MUSIC (MUon SImulation Code) and MUSUN (MUon Simulations UNderground). MUSIC is a package for muon transport through matter. It is particularly useful for propagating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Kudryavtsev

The China Jinping underground Laboratory (CJPL) is an excellent location for studying solar, terrestrial, and supernova neutrinos due to its 2400-meter vertical rock overburden. Its unparalleled depth gives an opportunity to investigate the…

Cosmic muon imaging technology is increasingly being applied in various fields. However, simulating cosmic muons typically requires the rapid generation of a large number of muons and tracking their complex trajectories through intricate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-11 Ao-Bo Wang , Chu-Cheng Pan , Xiang Dong , Yu-Chang Sun , Yu-Xuan Hu , Ao-Yan Cheng , Hao Cai , Xi-Long Fan

Differential and integral energy spectra of cosmic ray muons in the energy range from several TeV to ~ 1 PeV obtained by means of the analysis of multiple interactions of muons (pair meter technique) in the Baksan underground scintillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. G. Bogdanov , R. P. Kokoulin , Yu. F. Novoseltsev , R. V. Novoseltseva , V. B. Petkov , A. A. Petrukhin

Production of high-energy muons in cosmic-ray air showers, relevant for underground detectors, depends on the properties of the primary cosmic ray as well as the atmospheric temperature through the competition between decay and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-26 Stef Verpoest , Thomas K. Gaisser

Cosmic-rays with energies up to $3\times10^{20}$ eV have been observed. The nuclear composition of these cosmic rays is unknown but if the incident nuclei are protons then the corresponding center of mass energy is $\sqrt{s_{nn}} = 700$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Spencer R. Klein

In China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), the deepest and largest underground laboratory globally, the cosmic-ray muon flux is significantly reduced due to the substantial shielding provided by the overlying mountain. From 2016 to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-17 P. Zhang , H. Ma , W. Dai , M. Jing , L. Yang , Q. Yue , Z. Zeng , J. Cheng

In this work, we use muon bundles which are formed in extensive air showers and detected at the ground level as a tool for searching anisotropy of high energy cosmic rays. Such choice is explained by the penetrating ability of muons which…

We present a new one-dimensional calculation of low and intermediate energy atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes, using up-to-date data on primary cosmic rays and hadronic interactions. We study several sources of uncertainties relevant to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 G. Fiorentini , V. A. Naumov , F. L. Villante

Production of muons and neutrinos in cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere has been investigated with a cascade simulation program based on Lund Monte Carlo programs. The resulting `conventional' muon and neutrino fluxes (from $\pi…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 M. Thunman , G. Ingelman , P. Gondolo