An approach to study the cosmic ray 'knee' composition from underground multimuon events at a shallower depth

Authors
Ding, LK Zhu, QQ Shen, CQ Yao, ZG Cheung, T Vallinkoski, M
Citation
Lk. Ding et al., An approach to study the cosmic ray 'knee' composition from underground multimuon events at a shallower depth, HIGH EN P N, 23(6), 1999, pp. 584-588
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION
ISSN journal
02543052 → ACNP
Volume
23
Issue
6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
584 - 588
Database
ISI
SICI code
0254-3052(199906)23:6<584:AATSTC>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The observation of underground multimuon phenomena is an important way for the study of the cosmic ray composition in the 'knee' region (10(15)-10(16) eV). It is noticed that the existing underground detectors are not very id eal for the composition study because they were: originally designed mainly for other aims. A new approach having higher sensitivity far this study by observing multimuon events using a detector array in a shallower depth und erground is presented.