2017/09/26 by A. Chiriacescu, I. Lazanu, Chiriacescu, Ana +1
Health Professions · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.09116
openalex publication_date 2017/09/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The effects induced by muons with very low energies are usually neglected. In fact, they could represent a source of radioactive background due to capture processes in different materials, which in most of cases produce radioactive isotopes, and thus they must be taken into account. Plastic track detectors have been used in the present paper to measure the ratio between the vertical and horizontal components of the flux of very low energy terrestrial muons at ground level. The data have been collected during 160 days.