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Measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum from 20 to 3000 GeV

  • P. Achard
  • , O. Adriani
  • , M. Aguilar-Benitez
  • , M. van den Akker
  • , J. Alcaraz
  • , G. Alemanni
  • , J. Allaby
  • , A. Aloisio
  • , M. G. Alviggi
  • , H. Anderhub
  • , V. P. Andreev
  • , F. Anselmo
  • , A. Arefiev
  • , T. Azemoon
  • , T. Aziz
  • , P. Bagnaia
  • , A. Bajo
  • , G. Baksay
  • , L. Baksay
  • , J. Bähr
  • S. V. Baldew, S. Banerjee, S. W. Banerjee, A. Barczyk, R. Barillère, P. Bartalini, M. Basile, N. Batalova, R. Battiston, A. Bay, F. Becattini, U. Becker, F. Behner, L. Bellucci, R. Berbeco, J. Berdugo, P. Berges, B. Bertucci, B. L. Betev, M. Biasini, M. Biglietti, A. Biland, J. J. Blaising, S. C. Blyth, G. J. Bobbink, A. Böhm, L. Boldizsar, B. Borgia, S. Bottai, D. Bourilkov, M. Bourquin, S. Braccini, J. G. Branson, F. Brochu, J. D. Burger, W. J. Burger, X. D. Cai, M. Capell, G. Cara Romeo, G. Carlino, A. Cartacci, J. Casaus, F. Cavallari, N. Cavallo, C. Cecchi, M. Cerrada, M. Chamizo, T. Chiarusi, Y. H. Chang, M. Chemarin, A. Chen, G. Chen, G. M. Chen, H. F. Chen, H. S. Chen, G. Chiefari, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, I. Clare, R. Clare, G. Coignet, N. Colino, S. Costantini, B. de la Cruz, S. Cucciarelli, J. A. van Dalen, R. de Asmundis, P. Déglon, J. Debreczeni, A. Degré, K. Dehmelt, K. Deiters, D. della Volpe, E. Delmeire, P. Denes, F. de Notaristefani, A. de Salvo, M. Diemoz, M. Dierckxsens, L. K. Ding, C. Dionisi, M. Dittmar, A. Doria, M. T. Dova, D. Duchesneau, M. Duda, I. Duran, B. Echenard, A. Eline, A. el Hage, H. el Mamouni, A. Engler, F. J. Eppling, P. Extermann, G. Faber, M. A. Falagan, S. Falciano, A. Favara, J. Fay, O. Fedin, M. Felcini, T. Ferguson, H. Fesefeldt, E. Fiandrini, J. H. Field, F. Filthaut, W. Fisher, I. Fisk, G. Forconi, K. Freudenreich, C. Furetta, Yu Galaktionov, S. N. Ganguli, P. Garcia-Abia, M. Gataullin, S. Gentile, S. Giagu, Z. F. Gong, H. J. Grabosch, G. Grenier, O. Grimm, H. Groenstege, M. W. Gruenewald, M. Guida, Y. N. Guo, S. Gupta, V. K. Gupta, A. Gurtu, L. J. Gutay, D. Haas, Ch Haller, D. Hatzifotiadou, Y. Hayashi, Z. X. He, T. Hebbeker, A. Hervé, J. Hirschfelder, H. Hofer, H. Hofer, M. Hohlmann, G. Holzner, S. R. Hou, A. X. Huo, Y. Hu, N. Ito, B. N. Jin, C. L. Jing, L. W. Jones, P. de Jong, I. Josa-Mutuberría, V. Kantserov, M. Kaur, S. Kawakami, M. N. Kienzle-Focacci, J. K. Kim, J. Kirkby, W. Kittel, A. Klimentov, A. C. König, E. Kok, A. Korn, M. Kopal, V. Koutsenko, M. Kräber, H. H. Kuang, R. W. Kraemer, A. Krüger, J. Kuijpers, A. Kunin, P. Ladron de Guevara, I. Laktineh, G. Landi, M. Lebeau, A. Lebedev, P. Lebrun, P. Lecomte, P. Lecoq, P. le Coultre, J. M. le Goff, Y. Lei, H. Leich, R. Leiste, M. Levtchenko, P. Levtchenko, C. Li, L. Li, Z. C. Li, S. Likhoded, C. H. Lin, W. T. Lin, F. L. Linde, L. Lista, Z. A. Liu, W. Lohmann, E. Longo, Y. S. Lu, C. Luci, L. Luminari, W. Lustermann, W. G. Ma, X. H. Ma, Y. Q. Ma, L. Malgeri, A. Malinin, C. Maña, J. Mans, J. P. Martin, F. Marzano, K. Mazumdar, R. R. McNeil, S. Mele, X. W. Meng, L. Merola, M. Meschini, W. J. Metzger, A. Mihul, A. Van Mil, H. Milcent, G. Mirabelli, J. Mnich, G. B. Mohanty, B. Monteleoni, G. S. Muanza, A. J.M. Muijs, B. Musicar, M. Musy, S. Nagy, R. Nahnhauer, V. A. Naumov, S. Natale, M. Napolitano, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, H. Newman, A. Nisati, T. Novak, H. Nowak, R. Ofierzynski, G. Organtini, I. Pal, C. Palomares, P. Paolucci, R. Paramatti, J. F. Parriaud, G. Passaleva, S. Patricelli, T. Paul, M. Pauluzzi, C. Paus, F. Pauss, M. Pedace, S. Pensotti, D. Perret-Gallix, B. Petersen, D. Piccolo, F. Pierella, M. Pieri, M. Pioppi, P. A. Piroué, E. Pistolesi, V. Plyaskin, M. Pohl, V. Pojidaev, J. Pothier, D. Prokofiev, J. Quartieri, C. R. Qing, G. Rahal-Callot, M. A. Rahaman, P. Raics, N. Raja, R. Ramelli, P. G. Rancoita, R. Ranieri, A. Raspereza, K. C. Ravindran, P. Razis, D. Ren, M. Rescigno, S. Reucroft, P. Rewiersma, S. Riemann, K. Riles, B. P. Roe, A. Rojkov, L. Romero, A. Rosca, C. Rosemann, C. Rosenbleck, S. Rosier-Lees, S. Roth, J. A. Rubio, G. Ruggiero, H. Rykaczewski, R. Saidi, A. Sakharov, S. Saremi, S. Sarkar, J. Salicio, E. Sanchez, C. Schäfer, V. Schegelsky, V. Schmitt, B. Schoeneich, H. Schopper, D. J. Schotanus, C. Sciacca, L. Servoli, C. Q. Shen, S. Shevchenko, N. Shivarov, V. Shoutko, E. Shumilov, A. Shvorob, D. Son, C. Souga, P. Spillantini, M. Steuer, D. P. Stickland, B. Stoyanov, A. Straessner, K. Sudhakar, H. Sulanke, G. Sultanov, L. Z. Sun, S. Sushkov, H. Suter, J. D. Swain, Z. Szillasi, X. W. Tang, P. Tarjan, L. Tauscher, L. Taylor, B. Tellili, D. Teyssier, C. Timmermans, Samuel C.C. Ting, S. M. Ting, S. C. Tonwar, J. Tóth, G. Trowitzsch, C. Tully, K. L. Tung, J. Ulbricht, M. Unger, E. Valente, H. Verkooijen, R. T. van de Dewalle, R. Vasquez, V. Veszpremi, G. Vesztergombi, I. Vetlitsky, D. Vicinanza, G. Viertel, S. Villa, M. Vivargent, S. Vlachos, I. Vodopianov, H. Vogel, H. Vogt, I. Vorobiev, A. A. Vorobyov, M. Wadhwa, R. G. Wang, Q. Wang, X. L. Wang, X. W. Wang, Z. M. Wang, M. Weber, R. van Wijk, T. A.M. Wijnen, H. Wilkens, S. Wynhoff, L. Xia, Y. P. Xu, J. S. Xu, Z. Z. Xu, J. Yamamoto, B. Z. Yang, C. G. Yang, H. J. Yang, M. Yang, X. F. Yang, Z. G. Yao, S. C. Yeh, Z. Q. Yu, An Zalite, Yu Zalite, C. Zhang, F. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, J. Zhao, S. J. Zhou, G. Y. Zhu, R. Y. Zhu, H. L. Zhuang, Q. Q. Zhu, A. Zichichi, B. Zimmermann, M. Zöller, A. N.M. Zwart
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Florence
  • CIEMAT
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • University of Lausanne
  • CERN
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Louisiana State University
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics InstituteGatchina
  • University of Bologna
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • University of Amsterdam
  • IN2P3-CNRS
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Purdue University
  • University of Perugia
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics
  • University of California at San Diego
  • University of Basilicata
  • National Central University
  • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • China University of Science and Technology
  • University of Salerno
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Princeton University
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • California Institute of Technology
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University College Dublin
  • University of Basel
  • Osaka Metropolitan University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Panjab University
  • Kyungpook National University
  • University of Bucharest
  • Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Northeastern University
  • University of Cyprus
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Hamburg
  • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Tsing Hua University
  • ICSC - World Laboratory

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Abstract

The absolute muon flux between 20 and 3000 GeV is measured with the L3 magnetic muon spectrometer for zenith angles ranging from 0°to 58°. Due to the large exposure of about 150 m2sr d, and the excellent momentum resolution of the L3 muon chambers, a precision of 2.3% at 150 GeV in the vertical direction is achieved.The ratio of positive to negative muons is studied between 20 and 500 GeV, and the average vertical muon charge ratio is found to be 1.285±0.003(stat.)±0.019(syst.).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15-32
Number of pages18
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume598
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 23 2004

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