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Investigation of the spectrum of high-energy muons by the method of multiple interactions on the basis of data from the Baksan underground scintillation telescope

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Experimental data obtained with the aid of the Baksan underground scintillation telescope over a long period of its operation are analyzed with the aim of searches for an excess flux of ultrahigh-energy (≥100 TeV)muons. The multiple-interaction method, which is based on the ideas of the pair-meter technique, is used to analyze the energy spectrum of the muons. The phenomenological parameters of this method and its sensitivity to the shape of the spectrum are discussed. The experimental distributions are compared with the results of calculations for various versions of the muon spectrum. The possibility of separating ultrahigh-energy muons that fly in the vicinity of the axis of extensive air showers is assessed on the basis of the integrated number of recorded and simulated events featuring large energy depositions.

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  1. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University), Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    A. G. Bogdanov, R. P. Kokoulin & A. A. Petrukhin

  2. Baksan Neutrino Observatory, Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Shestidesyatiletiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    Yu. F. Novoseltsev, R. V. Novoseltseva & V. B. Petkov

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Bogdanov, R.P. Kokoulin, Yu.F. Novoseltsev, R.V. Novoseltseva, V.B. Petkov, A.A. Petrukhin, 2009, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2009, Vol. 72, No. 12, pp. 2112–2120.

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Bogdanov, A.G., Kokoulin, R.P., Novoseltsev, Y.F. et al. Investigation of the spectrum of high-energy muons by the method of multiple interactions on the basis of data from the Baksan underground scintillation telescope. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 72, 2049–2058 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778809120084

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