Lateral distribution of muon pairs in underground cosmic ray showers
- 1 November 1970
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 3 (6) , 689-696
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/3/6/009
Abstract
The lateral distribution of cosmic-ray muon showers underground has been studied by measuring the separations between about 5000 pairs of muons. Results are presented in terms of a counting rate for an equivalent pair of one metre-square detectors beneath 2500 hg cm-2 rock and orientated at 45 degrees zenith. For separations from 0 to 50 m an approximately exponential dependence of the counting rate on detector separation is observed which decreases by a factor e in of the order of 10 m.Keywords
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