Vertical Muon Intensities at the Utah Site
- 19 July 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (3) , 164-166
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.164
Abstract
In order to test the possibility of explaining Utah's observed underground muon deficit at large zenith angles on the basis of rock density anomalies, a portable cosmic ray telescope was set up at five different locations under the beam line of the large Utah neutrino detector. The main rock density above each station could be accurately inferred from the observed vertical intensity. If the resulting values are incorporated into the Utah data, the existence of an isotropic muon component, as inferred from the Utah extrapolations, seems to be substantiated.Keywords
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