A new measurement of the altitude dependence of the atmospheric muon intensity

Details A new measurement of the altitude dependence of the atmospheric muon intensity A new measurement of the altitude dependence of the atmospheric muon intensity

2004-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410552v1

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 092005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.092005

We present a new measurement of atmospheric muons made during an ascent of the High Energy Antimatter Telescope balloon experiment. The muon charge ratio mu+/mu- as a function of atmospheric depth in the momentum interval 0.3-0.9 GeV/c is presented. The differential mu- intensities in the 0.3-50 GeV/c range and for atmospheric depths between 4-960 g/cm^2 are also presented. We compare these results with other measurements and model predictions. We find that our charge ratio is ~1.1 for all atmospheric depths and is consistent, within errors, with other measurements and the model predictions. We find that our measured mu- intensities are also consistent with other measurements, and with the model predictions, except at shallow atmospheric depths.

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