Published January 24, 1992
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On the scattering of atmospheric muons in the rock above Soudan 2
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I have investigated the effect of scattering in the rock overburden on the position and direction of atmospheric muons as observed at the Soudan 2 detector relative to the surface. The dominant contributions to the fluctuations in those observables arise from multiple Coulomb scattering and delta ray production. The contribution of the other energy loss mechanisms, bremsstrahlung, pair production and nuclear interactions, is small, with slowly increasing importance at very large deviations from the means of the distributions
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 20 p.
- Report number
- ANL/HEP/TR--92/05
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23055914
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC MUONS; COULOMB SCATTERING; CROSS SECTIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; SHOWER COUNTERS
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; COSMIC RADIATION; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MUONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; VARIATIONS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract W-31109-ENG-38
- Funding organization
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).