Fluctuations and nuclear interactions in the energy loss of cosmic-ray muons

1967 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kobayakawa
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Nuclear Interactions

scholarly journals Derivation of Muon Intensities in Sea-water Depths up to 1400 M.W.E. from a Recent Primary Cosmic Ray Spectrum

1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 575 ◽  
Author(s):  
DP Bhattacharyya ◽  
Pratibha Pal ◽  
A Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Energy Loss ◽  
Pair Production ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Energy ◽  
Energy Relation ◽  
Scaling Hypothesis ◽  
Nuclear Interactions ◽  
Water Depths

The muon intensities in sea-water depths up to 1400 M.W.E. have been derived from a recent primary cosmic ray spectrum. The scaling hypothesis of Feynman has been used in the calculation of meson spectra in the atmosphere. The range-energy relation for muons in sea water, used in the present work, accounts for the muon energy loss in sea water due to collisions, pair production, bremsstrahlung and nuclear interactions. The calculated muon range spectrum in sea water is well in accord with the experimental data obtained by Higashi et al. (1966), Davitaev et al. (1969), and Rogers and Tristam (1981, 1983

High energy nuclear interactions in lead by cosmic ray protons at 3500 m

1956 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 826-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Giacconi ◽  
A. Lovati ◽  
A. Mura ◽  
C. Succi
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Nuclear Interactions

Anomalous interactions of secondary particles emitted from relativistic heavy primary interactions

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 343-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Judek
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Secondary Particles ◽  
Nuclear Interactions ◽  
Charged Secondary ◽  
Singly Charged

Interaction mean free paths of relativistic secondary particles emitted from interactions of heavy primary cosmic-ray nuclei in emulsions were measured. The results show that among the Be, Li, He, and singly charged secondary nuclei there are particles present which interact with a cross section several times higher than the expected geometrical value. The stars produced by these particles have the characteristics of ordinary nuclear interactions. There appears to be no interpretation of these observations in terms of any known particle phenomena.

scholarly journals Energy loss measurements of inclined muon bundles in the Cherenkov water detector

2019 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 08006
Author(s):  
R.P. Kokoulin ◽  
N.S. Barbashina ◽  
A.G. Bogdanov ◽  
S.S. Khokhlov ◽  
V.A. Khomyakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Average Energy ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Energy ◽  
Single Experiment ◽  
Muon Component ◽  
Energy Deposit ◽  
Tracking Detector ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Muon Bundles

An experiment on the measurements of the energy deposit of inclined cosmic ray muon bundles is being conducted at the experimental complex NEVOD (MEPhI). The complex includes the Cherenkov water calorimeter with a volume of 2000 m3 and the coordinate-tracking detector DECOR with a total area of 70 m2. The DECOR data are used to determine the local muon densities in the bundle events and their arrival directions, while the energy deposits (and hence the average muon energy loss) are evaluated from the Cherenkov calorimeter response. Average energy loss carries information about the mean muon energy in the bundles. The detection of the bundles in a wide range of muon multiplicities and zenith angles gives the opportunity to explore the energy range of primary cosmic ray particles from about 10 to 1000 PeV in the frame of a single experiment with a relatively small compact setup. Experimental results on the dependence of the muon bundle energy deposit on the zenith angle and the local muon density are presented and compared with expectations based on simulations of the EAS muon component with the CORSIKA code.

Calculated Energy Loss Spectra in the CRaTER Detector for Selected Cosmic Ray Ions

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Charara ◽  
L. Townsend ◽  
H. Moussa ◽  
R. Hatcher ◽  
C. Dudney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Calculated Energy

The rate of energy loss of high-energy cosmic ray muons

1963 ◽  
Vol 275 (1362) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Spectrum ◽  
Energy Loss ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Nuclear Interaction ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Level Energy ◽  
Muon Spectrum ◽  
The Third ◽  
Muon Mass

The rate of energy loss of muons is examined by com paring the observed depth-intensity relation with that predicted from a knowledge of the sea-level energy spectrum of cosmic ray muons. The evidence for each of the parameters entering into the analysis is assessed and estimates are made of the sea-level muon spectrum up to 10000 GeV and the depth-intensity relation down to 7000 m.w.e. The effect of range-straggling on the underground intensities is considered and shown to be important at depths below 1000 m.w.e. Following previous workers the energy loss relation is written as -d E /d x =1.88+0.077 in E ' m / mc 2 + b E MeV g -1 cm 2 , where E ' m is the maximum transferrable energy in a /i-e collision and m is the muon mass. The first two terms give the contribution from ionization (and excitation) loss and the third term is the combined contribution from pair production, bremsstrahlung and nuclear interaction. The best estimate of the coefficient b from the present work is b = (3.95 + 0.25) x 10 -6 g -1 cm 2 over the energy range 500 to 10000 GeV, which is close to the theoretical value of 4.0 x 10 -6 g -1 cm 2 . It is concluded that there is no evidence for any marked anomaly in the energy loss processes for muons of energies up to 10000 GeV.

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