Measurement of the energy spectrum of underground muons at Gran Sasso with a transition radiation detector

M Ambrosio,A Surdo,P Lipari,M De Vincenzi,P Monacelli,L Patrizii,R Pazzi,E Kearns,M Vakili,D Martello,G Mandrioli,M Giorgini,P Spinelli,S Petrera,V Togo,D Campana,O Erriquez,V Bisi,E Lamanna,P Guarnaccia,P Pistilli,M Calicchio,V Popa,A Sciubba,G Auriemma,S Coutu,C Satriano,J Reynoldson,R Steinberg,C De Marzo,G Battistoni,U Rubizzo,F Maaroufi,R Antolini,M Severi,F Guarino,G Osteria,C Mazzotta,C Gustavino,I De Mitri,S Cecchini,P Bernardini,C Bemporad,F Cafagna,C Bloise,G Giacomelli,G Mancarella,S Kyriazopoulou,A Di Credico,E Iarocci,P Fusco,O Palamara,L Satta,D Ugolotti,C Favuzzi,P Serra-Lugaresi,H Dekhissi,M Spinetti,C Forti,M Carboni,M Ouchrif,E Katsavounidis,A Margiotta Neri,A Habig,J Musser,A Marini,S Mufson,S Bussino,N Giglietto,F Cei,C Lane,C Aramo,A Grillo,A Baldini,M Monteno,R Bellotti,V Patera,K Scholberg,M Sioli,C Bower,Laura Stephanie Miller ,Yuping Huang ,A Rainò ,C W Peck ,M N Mazziotta ,B C Choudhary ,B C Barish ,G C Barbarino ,J E Derkaoui ,G Dc Cataldo ,C J Orth ,A Marzari‐Chiesa ,D Levin ,L Sulak ,D G Michael ,G Tarlé ,F J Ronga ,D Nicolò ,C W Walter ,T Montarali ,J L Stone ,Shahid Manzoor ,Leonarda De Benedictis ,M J Longo ,N P Longley ,T Giannini ,M Grassi,S Mikheyev,M Sitta,M Spurio,H Bilokon,R Webb,V Chiarella,K Hanson,H Kim,L Gray,E Scapparone,R Heinz,M Castellano,V Pugliese

doi:10.1016/s0927-6505(98)00037-1

Measurement of the energy spectrum of underground muons at Gran Sasso with a transition radiation detector

M Ambrosio, A Surdo + Show 118 more

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Journal: Astroparticle Physics	Publication Date: Jan 1, 1999
Citations: 31

Affiliation: INFN Sezione di Napoli, University of Salento, National Laboratory of Frascati, INFN Sezione di Bari, Polytechnic University of Bari, Indiana University Bloomington, INFN Sezione di Torino, Sapienza University of Rome, Gran Sasso National Laboratory, INFN Sezione di Lecce, INFN Sezione di Pisa, University of Pisa, California Institute of Technology

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We have measured directly the residual energy of cosmic ray muons crossing the MACRO detector at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. For this measurement we have used a transition radiation detector consisting of three identical modules, each of about 12 m 2 area, operating in the energy region from 100 GeV to 1 TeV. The results presented here were obtained with the first module collecting data for more than two years. The average single muon energy is found to be 320 ± 4 (stat.) ± 11 (syst.) GeV in the rock depth range 3000–6500 hg/cm 2. The results are in agreement with calculations of the energy loss of muons in the rock above the detector.

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