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Main Authors: Woodley, William, Fedynitch, Anatoli, Piro, Marie-Cécile
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10339
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author Woodley, William
Fedynitch, Anatoli
Piro, Marie-Cécile
author_facet Woodley, William
Fedynitch, Anatoli
Piro, Marie-Cécile
contents We provide comprehensive calculations of total muon fluxes, energy and angular spectra, and mean muon energies in deep underground laboratories - under flat overburdens and mountains and underwater - using our latest calculation code, MUTE v3. For precise modeling, we compiled rock densities and chemical compositions for various underground labs, as well as topographic map profiles of overburdens, and integrated them into our calculations. Our results show excellent agreement with available data for most underground sites when using the latest surface muon flux model, daemonflux. Moreover, since our calculations do not rely on underground measurements of muons or other secondaries, we can verify the consistency of measurements across different detectors at different sites. MUTE is an open-source, publicly available program, providing a solid framework for accurate muon flux predictions in various underground environments, essential for applications in cosmic ray physics and dark matter searches.
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spellingShingle Cosmic Ray Muons in Laboratories Deep Underground
Woodley, William
Fedynitch, Anatoli
Piro, Marie-Cécile
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We provide comprehensive calculations of total muon fluxes, energy and angular spectra, and mean muon energies in deep underground laboratories - under flat overburdens and mountains and underwater - using our latest calculation code, MUTE v3. For precise modeling, we compiled rock densities and chemical compositions for various underground labs, as well as topographic map profiles of overburdens, and integrated them into our calculations. Our results show excellent agreement with available data for most underground sites when using the latest surface muon flux model, daemonflux. Moreover, since our calculations do not rely on underground measurements of muons or other secondaries, we can verify the consistency of measurements across different detectors at different sites. MUTE is an open-source, publicly available program, providing a solid framework for accurate muon flux predictions in various underground environments, essential for applications in cosmic ray physics and dark matter searches.
title Cosmic Ray Muons in Laboratories Deep Underground
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10339