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Measurement of Cosmic-ray Muons and Muon-induced Neutrons in the Aberdeen Tunnel Underground Laboratory
| العنوان: | Measurement of Cosmic-ray Muons and Muon-induced Neutrons in the Aberdeen Tunnel Underground Laboratory |
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| المؤلفون: | Blyth, S. C., Chan, Y. L., Chen, X. C., Chu, M. C., Cui, K. X., Hahn, R. L., Ho, T. H., Hor, Y. K., Hsiung, Y. B., Hu, B. Z., Kwan, K. K., Kwok, M. W., Kwok, T., Lau, Y. P., Lee, K. P., Leung, J. K. C., Leung, K. Y., Lin, G. L., Lin, Y. C., Luk, K. B., Luk, W. H., Ngai, H. Y., Ngai, W. K., Ngan, S. Y., Pun, C. S. J., Shih, K., Tam, Y. H., Tsang, R. H. M., Wang, C. H., Wong, C. M., Wong, H. H. C., Wong, H. L. H., Wong, K. K., Yeh, M. |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. D 93, 072005 (2016) |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics (Other) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| الوصف: | We have measured the muon flux and production rate of muon-induced neutrons at a depth of 611 m water equivalent. Our apparatus comprises three layers of crossed plastic scintillator hodoscopes for tracking the incident cosmic-ray muons and 760 L of gadolinium-doped liquid scintillator for producing and detecting neutrons. The vertical muon intensity was measured to be $I_{\mu} = (5.7 \pm 0.6) \times 10^{-6}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$sr$^{-1}$. The yield of muon-induced neutrons in the liquid scintillator was determined to be $Y_{n} = (1.19 \pm 0.08 (stat) \pm 0.21 (syst)) \times 10^{-4}$ neutrons/($\mu\cdot$g$\cdot$cm$^{-2}$). A fit to the recently measured neutron yields at different depths gave a mean muon energy dependence of $\left\langle E_{\mu} \right\rangle^{0.76 \pm 0.03}$ for liquid-scintillator targets. Comment: 14 pages, 17 figures, 3 tables |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.072005 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09038Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.1509.09038 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.072005 |
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