Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-05-07
Phys.Rev.D60:052002,1999
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
31 pages, including 17 figures, simplified apparatus figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.052002
We report here the measurements of the energy spectra of atmospheric muons and of the cosmic ray primary proton and helium nuclei in a single experiment. These were carried out using the MASS superconducting spectrometer in a balloon flight experiment in 1991. The relevance of these results to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly is emphasized. In particular, this approach allows uncertainties caused by the level of solar modulation, the geomagnetic cut-off of the primaries and possible experimental systematics to be decoupled in the comparison of calculated fluxes of muons to measured muon fluxes. The muon observations cover the momentum and depth ranges of 0.3-40 GeV/c and 5-886 g/cmsquared, respectively. The proton and helium primary measurements cover the rigidity range from 3 to 100 GV, in which both the solar modulation and the geomagnetic cut-off affect the energy spectra at low energies.
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