A possible EAS array above the Soudan 2 detector

Details A possible EAS array above the Soudan 2 detector A possible EAS array above the Soudan 2 detector

Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icrc....7..292s&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., Vol. 7 p 292 (SEE N85-35968 24-93)

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Cosmic Ray Showers, Muons, Underground Structures, Arrays, Detection, Nuclei (Nuclear Physics), Protons, Simulation, Tables (Data)

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Multiple high energy muons, when studied with a large area detector, can be useful in the study of the composition of cosmic rays at energies approx. 10 14 eV. The Soudan II detector, primarily designed to detect nucleon decay, is located approx. 600 m deep underground and has dimensions of 16m x 8m x 5m (height), and is made up of drift tubes. The minimum muon energy needed to penetrate that depth is approximately 500 GeV. A set of simulated cosmic ray showers was set up to calculate the rate of muon associated events, using a trigger array with the number of detectors varying from 37 to 127 (the radius of acceptance varying from 50m to 100m). The number used in the calculations is given. The association rate is seen to be a strong function of the multiplicity of muons in the detector. The difference in the rates of association of proton and nuclei induced showers rises rapidly with multiplicity.

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