Measurement of the muon-induced neutron seasonal modulation with LVD

2017/01/17 by N. Yu. Agafonova, Agafonova, N. Yu. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Neutrino Physics Research #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.04620

XXV ECRS 2016 Proceedings - eConf C16-09-04.3

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Abstract

Cosmic ray muons with the average energy of 280 GeV and neutrons produced by muons are detected with the Large Volume Detector at LNGS. We present an analysis of the seasonal variation of the neutron flux on the basis of the data obtained during 15 years. The measurement of the seasonal variation of the specific number of neutrons generated by muons allows to obtaine the variation magnitude of of the average energy of the muon flux at the depth of the LVD location. The source of the seasonal variation of the total neutron flux is a change of the intensity and the average energy of the muon flux.

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