Test results of a prototype designed to detect horizontal cosmic ray flux

2004/09/07 by M. Iori, A. Sergi, Iori, M. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle Detector Development and Performance

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0409159

Abstract

In this paper we report test results from a prototype designed to detect muons from horizontal air shower at large zenith angle, 86⁰

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