Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon
- Adamson, P.
- Andreopoulos, C.
- Ayres, D.S.
- Backhouse, C.
- Barr, G.
- Barrett, W.L.
- Bishai, M.
- Blake, A.
- Bock, B.
- Bock, G.J.
- Boehnlein, D.J.
- Bogert, D.
- Bower, C.
- Budd, S.
- Cavanaugh, S.
- Cherdack, D.
- Childress, S.
- Choudhary, B.C.
- Cobb, J.H.
- Coelho, J.A.B.
- Coleman, S.J.
- Corwin, L.
- Cronin-Hennessy, D.
- Danko, I.Z.
- de Jong, J.K.
- Devenish, N.E.
- Diwan, M.V.
- Dorman, M.
- Escobar, C.O.
- Evans, J.J.
- Falk, E.
- Feldman, Gary J.
- Frohne, M.V.
- Gallagher, H.R.
- Godley, A.
- Gomes, R.A.
- Goodman, M.C.
- Gouffon, P.
- Gran, R.
- Grant, N.
- Grashorn, E.W.
- Grzelak, K.
- Habig, A.
- Harris, D.
- Harris, P.G.
- Hartnell, J.
- Hatcher, R.
- Himmel, A.
- Holin, A.
- Huang, X.
- Hylen, J.
- Ilic, J.
- Irwin, G.M.
- Isvan, Z.
- Jaffe, D.E.
- James, C.
- Jensen, D.
- Kafka, T.
- Kasahara, S.M.S.
- Koizumi, G.
- Kopp, S.
- Kordosky, M.
- Krahn, Z.
- Kreymer, A.
- Lang, K.
- Lefeuvre, G.
- Ling, J.
- Litchfield, P.J.
- Litchfield, R.P.
- Loiacono, L.
- Lucas, P.
- Mann, W.A.
- Marshak, M.L.
- Marshall, J.S.
- Mayer, N.
- McGowan, A.M.
- Mehdiyev, R.
- Meier, J.R.
- Messier, M.D.
- Michael, D.G.
- Miller, W.H.
- Mishra, S.R.
- Mitchell, J.
- Moore, C.D.
- Mualem, L.
- Mufson, S.
- Musser, J.
- Naples, D.
- Nelson, J.K.
- Newman, H.B.
- Nichol, R.J.
- Nicholls, T.C.
- Oliver, W.P.
- Orchanian, M.
- Paley, J.
- Patterson, R.B.
- Pawloski, G.
- Pearce, G.F.
- Peterson, E.A.
- Pittam, R.
- Plunkett, R.K.
- Ratchford, J.
- Raufer, T.M.
- Rebel, B.
- Reichenbacher, J.
- Rodrigues, P.A.
- Rosenfeld, C.
- Rubin, H.A.
- Ryabov, V.A.
- Sanchez, M.C.
- Schneps, J.
- Schreiner, P.
- Semenov, V.K.
- Shanahan, P.
- Sousa, A.
- Strait, M.
- Tagg, N.
- Talaga, R.L.
- Thomas, J.
- Thomson, M.A.
- Thron, J.L.
- Tinti, G.
- Toner, R.
- Tzanakos, G.
- Urheim, J.
- Vahle, P.
- Viren, B.
- Weber, A.
- Webb, R.C.
- White, C.
- Whitehead, L.
- Wojcicki, S.G.
- Wright, D.M.
- Yang, T.
- Zwaska, R.
Publication date
September 2016
DOI Publisher
Elsevier BV Journal
Astroparticle PhysicsAbstract
The shadowing of cosmic ray primaries by the moon and sun was observed by the MINOS far detector at a depth of 2070 mwe using 83.54 million cosmic ray muons accumulated over 1857.91 live-days. The shadow of the moon was detected at the 5.6 σ level and the shadow of the sun at the 3.8 σ level using a log-likelihood search in celestial coordinates. The moon shadow was used to quantify the absolute astrophysical pointing of the detector to be 0.17 ± 0.12°. Hints of interplanetary magnetic field effects were observed in both the sun and moon shadowPhysic
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