Muon-Induced Background Study for Underground Laboratories

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2005-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512125v2

Phys.Rev.D73:053004,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 28 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.73.053004

We provide a comprehensive study of the cosmic-ray muon flux and induced activity as a function of overburden along with a convenient parameterization of the salient fluxes and differential distributions for a suite of underground laboratories ranging in depth from $\sim$1 to 8 km.w.e.. Particular attention is given to the muon-induced fast neutron activity for the underground sites and we develop a Depth-Sensitivity-Relation to characterize the effect of such background in experiments searching for WIMP dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay.

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