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Looking at the sub-TeV sky with cosmic muons detected in the EEE MRPC telescopes

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Distributions of secondary cosmic muons were measured by the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC) telescopes of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, spanning a large angular and temporal acceptance through its sparse sites, to test the possibility to search for any anomaly over long runs. After correcting for the time exposure and geometrical acceptance of the telescopes, data were transformed into equatorial coordinates, and equatorial sky maps were obtained from different sites on a preliminary dataset of 110M events in the energy range at sub-TeV scale.

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  1. Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, Italy

    M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini, R. Baldini Ferroli, G. Batignani, E. Bossini, E. Bressan, C. Cicalo, L. Cifarelli, A. Corvaglia, D. De Gruttola, S. De Pasquale, P. Galeotti, M. Garbini, I. Gnesi, S. Grazzi, D. Hatzifotiadou, P. La Rocca, S. Miozzi, M. Panareo, M. P. Panetta, R. Paoletti, L. Perasso, F. Pilo, F. Riggi, G. C. Righini, G. Sartorelli, M. Schioppa, A. Scribano & A. Zichichi

  2. INFN and Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

    M. Abbrescia

  3. INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    C. Avanzini, L. Baldini, G. Batignani, F. Pilo, A. Scribano & G. Terreni

  4. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Frascati (RM), Italy

    R. Baldini Ferroli, G. Bencivenni, M. Dreucci, F. L. Fabbri & S. Miozzi

  5. INFN Gruppo Collegato di Siena and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

    E. Bossini, R. Paoletti & M. C. S. Williams

  6. INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    E. Bressan, L. Cifarelli, M. Garbini, D. Hatzifotiadou, G. Sartorelli, E. Scapparone, M. Selvi & A. Zichichi

  7. INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    A. Chiavassa, P. Galeotti, I. Gnesi, A. Maggiora, G. Piragino & S. Serci

  8. INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    C. Cicalo & E. Siddi

  9. INFN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy

    E. Coccia & S. Miozzi

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    A. Corvaglia, M. Panareo & M. P. Panetta

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    D. De Gruttola & S. De Pasquale

  12. Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, INFN, Assergi, Italy

    A. Di Giovanni, M. D’Incecco, C. Gustavino & L. Votano

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    E. Fattibene, A. Ferraro, G. Maron, M. C. Vistoli & S. Zani

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    R. Forster, A. Rodriguez Rodriguez & R. Zuyeuski

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    R. Forster, D. Hatzifotiadou, A. Rodriguez Rodriguez, M. C. S. Williams, A. Zichichi & R. Zuyeuski

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    V. Frolov & G. Gemme

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    S. Grazzi, L. Perasso, S. Squarcia & M. Taiuti

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Abbrescia, M., Avanzini, C., Baldini, L. et al. Looking at the sub-TeV sky with cosmic muons detected in the EEE MRPC telescopes. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 130, 187 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2015-15187-0

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