Kudryavtsev, V.A. orcid.org/0000-0002-7018-5827, Korolkova, E.V. and Spooner, N.J.C. (1999) Narrow muon bundles from muon pair production in rock. Physics Letters B, 471 (2-3). pp. 251-256. ISSN 0370-2693
Abstract
We revise the process of muon pair production by high-energy muons in rock using the recently published cross-section. The three-dimensional Monte Carlo code MUSIC has been used to obtain the characteristics of the muon bundles initiated via this process. We have compared them with those of conventional muon bundles initiated in the atmosphere and shown that large underground detectors, capable of collecting hundreds of thousands of multiple muon events, can discriminate statistically muon induced bundles from conventional ones. However, we find that the enhancement of the measured muon decoherence function over that predicted at small distances, recently reported by the MACRO experiment, cannot be explained by the effect of muon pair production alone, unless its cross-section is underestimated by a factor of 3.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Physics Letters B. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
Keywords: | muons; cosmic rays; electromagnetic interactions of muons; muon transport; muons underground; ATOMIC ELECTRONS |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2017 09:35 |
Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2018 11:50 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01378-7 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01378-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122085 |