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Experimental data accumulated over 60 years of studying the yield of cosmogenic neutrons in a liquid scintillator (Y LS), iron (Y Fe), and lead (Y Pb) were analyzed. This analysis revealed that the main part of the results on the yield Y LS were overestimated by about 30%. With allowance for this circumstance, all experimental data can be described by the dependence Y(Ē µ, A) = b n A β Ē αµ , where the product b n Ē αµ stands for the energy spent by a muon on neutron production. The exponents of α = 0.78 and β = 0.95 are determined by the properties of the medium and by neutron production in showers.
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Original Russian Text © N.Yu. Agafonova, A.S. Malgin, 2013, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2013, Vol. 76, No. 5, pp. 650–658.
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Agafonova, N.Y., Malgin, A.S. Analysis of experimental data on the neutron yield from muons. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 76, 607–615 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778813050025
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