Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector
Deep underground muon events recorded by the Soudan 2 detector, located at a depth of 2100 m of water equivalent, have been used to infer the nuclear composition of cosmic rays in the "knee" region of the cosmic ray energy spectrum. The observed muon multiplicity distribution favors a comp...
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| author | Kasahara, S Allison, W Alner, G Ayers, D Barrett, W Bode, C Border, P Brooks, C Cobb, J Cockerill, D Cotton, R Courant, H DeMuth, D Ewen, B Fields, T Gallagher, H Goodman, M Gran, R Gray, R Johns, K Kafka, T Leeson, W Litchfield, P Longley, N Lowe, M |
| author_facet | Kasahara, S Allison, W Alner, G Ayers, D Barrett, W Bode, C Border, P Brooks, C Cobb, J Cockerill, D Cotton, R Courant, H DeMuth, D Ewen, B Fields, T Gallagher, H Goodman, M Gran, R Gray, R Johns, K Kafka, T Leeson, W Litchfield, P Longley, N Lowe, M |
| author_sort | Kasahara, S |
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| description | Deep underground muon events recorded by the Soudan 2 detector, located at a depth of 2100 m of water equivalent, have been used to infer the nuclear composition of cosmic rays in the "knee" region of the cosmic ray energy spectrum. The observed muon multiplicity distribution favors a composition model with a substantial proton content in the energy region 8 × 105-1.3×107 GeV/nucleus. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f190b679-0bf5-4b05-9594-672c5875a3272022-03-27T11:56:56ZStudy of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detectorJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f190b679-0bf5-4b05-9594-672c5875a327EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1997Kasahara, SAllison, WAlner, GAyers, DBarrett, WBode, CBorder, PBrooks, CCobb, JCockerill, DCotton, RCourant, HDeMuth, DEwen, BFields, TGallagher, HGoodman, MGran, RGray, RJohns, KKafka, TLeeson, WLitchfield, PLongley, NLowe, MDeep underground muon events recorded by the Soudan 2 detector, located at a depth of 2100 m of water equivalent, have been used to infer the nuclear composition of cosmic rays in the "knee" region of the cosmic ray energy spectrum. The observed muon multiplicity distribution favors a composition model with a substantial proton content in the energy region 8 × 105-1.3×107 GeV/nucleus. |
| spellingShingle | Kasahara, S Allison, W Alner, G Ayers, D Barrett, W Bode, C Border, P Brooks, C Cobb, J Cockerill, D Cotton, R Courant, H DeMuth, D Ewen, B Fields, T Gallagher, H Goodman, M Gran, R Gray, R Johns, K Kafka, T Leeson, W Litchfield, P Longley, N Lowe, M Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector |
| title | Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector |
| title_full | Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector |
| title_fullStr | Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector |
| title_short | Study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the Soudan 2 detector |
| title_sort | study of cosmic ray composition in the knee region using multiple muon events in the soudan 2 detector |
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