The measurement of upward going muons using the MACRO detector
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Description
The upward-going muon flux (Eμ > 1 GeV) has been measured with the underground detector MACRO at LNGS. The total number of measured events is compatible at the 8% c.l. with the expected one. Moreover, the zenith angular distribution of the measured flux does not match the expectation showing a deficit in the vertical direction where the apparatus performance is best known. Assuming an oscillation hypothesis with parameters in the range recently suggested to solve the atmospheric neutrino problem, the agreement increases, but not significantly. The results of an indirect dark matter search for a signal of WIMPs from the core of the Sun and of the Earth are given. Neutrino astronomy with MACRO is giving interesting results regarding possible high energy neutrino emission from pointlike sources and coincidences of neutrino events with γ-ray bursts
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Identifiers
- PII
- S092056329800454X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
- Journal Volume
- 70
- Journal Issue
- 1-3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 367-370
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
- CODEN
- NPBSE7
Conference
- Title
- 5. international workshop on topics in astroparticle and underground physics
- Acronym
- TAUP 97
- Dates
- 7-11 Sep 1997
- Place
- L'Aquilla (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 34059021
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; COSMIC MUONS; MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; MUON DETECTION; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
- Descriptors DEC
- CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; DISTRIBUTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MUONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.