{"title":"The momentum spectrum of muons at sea level in the range 5-1200 GeV/c","authors":"B. Nandi, M. Sinha","doi":"10.1088/0305-4470/5/9/011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The momentum spectrum of sea level cosmic ray muons has been measured for near vertical incidence in the range 5 GeV/c<p<1200 GeV/c by the Durgapur cosmic ray spectrograph. The measured spectrum compares well with that predicted from the pion diffusion model based on the assumption of 100% pions as the parent of muons. The exponent of the pion production spectrum has been determined to be -2.61-0.02+0.03. The present results are compared with the results of other workers.","PeriodicalId":54612,"journal":{"name":"Physics-A Journal of General and Applied Physics","volume":"21 1","pages":"1384-1394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1972-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"36","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics-A Journal of General and Applied Physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/5/9/011","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The momentum spectrum of sea level cosmic ray muons has been measured for near vertical incidence in the range 5 GeV/c