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Cosmic Rays Underground

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High Energy Cosmic Rays

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Primary cosmic rays almost never reach sea level. Secondary particles do. Hadrons, electrons and γ-rays interact immediately with the rock and are quickly absorbed. 10 meters of rock provide two to three times more column depth than the whole atmosphere. Only very high energy muons (E > 500 GeV) can penetrate deep underground where they can be detected by underground detectors. So can neutrinos with their very small interaction cross-section.

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Stanev, T. (2021). Cosmic Rays Underground. In: High Energy Cosmic Rays. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71567-0_7

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