Production of high-energy muons in the atmosphere

Details Production of high-energy muons in the atmosphere Production of high-energy muons in the atmosphere

May 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976izssr..40.1037p&link_type=abstract

(Vsesoiuznaia Konferentsiia po Fizike Kosmicheskikh Luchei, Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, Oct. 29-31, 1975.) Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Izvest

Physics

Cosmic Rays, Earth Atmosphere, High Energy Interactions, Muons, Particle Production, Data Acquisition, Energy Spectra, Kaons, Particle Accelerators

Scientific paper

A two-dimensional set of experimental data on muon production in the atmosphere is analyzed using a single theoretical formula for determining the kaon fraction and the production-spectrum index over the energy range from 10 to 10,000 GeV. The necessity of introducing an additional parameter for describing muon-production spectra of cosmic-rays is considered. It is shown that the spectral indices obtained do not contradict the argument that this index has a constant value of about 1.7 over the entire energy range examined. However, the kaon fraction determined from cosmic-ray data is found to be about double the value obtained from particle-accelerator data. This excess is attributed to an effect of primary cosmic-ray nuclei.

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