The observation of up-going charged particles produced by high energy muons in underground detectors
- M. Ambrosio
- R. Antolini
- C. Aramo
- G. Auriemma
- A. Baldini
- G. C. Barbarino
- B. C. Barish
- G. Battistoni
- R. Bellotti
- C. Bemporad
- P. Bernardini
- H. Bilokon
- V. Bisi
- C. Bloise
- C. Bower
- S. Bussino
- F. Cafagna
- M. Calicchio
- D. Campana
- M. Carboni
- M. Castellano
- S. Cecchini
- F. Cei
- V. Chiarella
- S. Coutu
- G. Cunti
- L. D. Benedictis
- G. D. Cataldo
- H. Dekhissi
- C. D. Marzo
- I. D. Mitri
- M. D. Vincenzi
- A. D. Credico
- O. Erriquez
- C. Favuzzi
- C. Forti
- P. Fusco
- G. Giacomelli
- G. Giannini
- N. Giglietto
- M. Grassi
- L. Gray
- A. Grillo
- F. Guarino
- P. Guarnaccia
- C. Gustavino
- A. Habig
- K. Hanson
- A. Hawthorne
- R. Heinz
- E. Iarocci
- E. Katsavounidis
- E. Kearns
- S. Kyriazopoulou
- E. Lamanna
- C. Lane
- D. S. Levin
- P. Lipari
- N. P. Longley
- M. J. Longo
- F. Maaroufi
- G. Mancarella
- G. Mandrioli
- S. Manzoor
- A. M. Neri
- A. Marini
- D. Martello
- A. Marzari-Chiesa
- M. N. Mazziotta
- C. Mazzotta
- D. G. Michael
- S. Mikheyev
- L. Miller
- P. Monacelli
- T. Montaruli
- M. Monteno
- S. Mufson
- J. Musser
- D. Nicolo
- R. Nolty
- C. Okada
- C. Orth
- G. Osteria
- O. Palamara
- V. Patera
- L. Patrizi
- R. Pazzi
- C. W. Peck
- S. Petrera
- P. Pistilli
- V. Popa
- V. Pugliese
- A. Raino
- J. Reynoldson
- F. Ronga
- U. Rubizzo
- A. Sanzgiri
- C. Satriano
- L. Satta
- E. Scapparone
- K. Scholberg
- A. Sciubba
- P. Serra-Lugares
- M. Severi
- M. Sioli
- M. Sitta
- P. Spinelli
- M. Spinetti
- M. Spurio
- R. Steinberg
- J. L. Stone
- L. R. Sulak
- A. Surdo
- G. Tarle
- V. Togo
- C. W. Walter
- R. Webb
DOIAbstract
An experimental study of the production of up-going charged particles in inelastic interactions of down-going underground muons is reported, using data obtained from the MACRO detector at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. In a sample of 12.2 x 10(6) single muons, corresponding to a detector lifetime of 1.55y, 243 events are observed having an up-going particle associated with a down-going muon. These events are analysed to determine the range and emission angle distributions of the up-going particle, corrected for detection and reconstruction efficiency. Measurements of the muon neutrino flux by underground detectors are often based on the observation of through-going and stopping muons produced in v(mu) interactions in the rock below the detector...
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