The measurement of upward going muons using the MACRO detector

The upward-going muon flux ( E μ > 1 GeV) has been measured with the underground detector MACRO at LNGS. The total number of measured events is compatible at the 8% c.l. with the expected one. Moreover, the zenith angular distribution of the measured flux does not match the expectation showing a...

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Published in:Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 367 - 370
Main Authors: Montaruli, T., Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Aramo, C., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G.C., Barish, B.C., Battistoni, G., Bellotti, R., Bernardini, P., Bilokon, H., Bisi, V., Bloise, C., Bower, C., Bussino, S., Cafagna, F., Calicchio, M., Campana, D., Castellano, M., Cei, F., Chiarella, V., Coutu, S., De Benedictis, L., De Cataldo, G., Dekhissi, H., De Mitri, I., De Vincenzi, M., Di Credico, A., Erriquez, O., Favuzzi, C., Forti, C., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, G., Giglietto, N., Grassi, M., Gray, L., Grillo, A., Guarino, F., Guarnaccia, P., Gustavino, C., Habig, A., Hanson, K., Hawthorne, A., Heinz, R., Iarocci, E., Kearns, E., Kyriazopoulou, S., Lamanna, E., Lane, C., Levin, D.S., Lipari, P., Longley, N.P., Maaroufi, F., Mandrioli, G., Manzoor, S., Margiotta Neri, A., Marini, A., Martello, D., Marzari-Chiesa, A., Mazziotta, M.N., Mazzotta, C., Michael, D.G., Miller, L., Monteno, M., Mufson, S., Musser, J., Nicoló, D., Nolty, R., Okada, C., Orth, C., Palamara, O., Patera, V., Patrizii, L., Pazzi, R., Petrera, S., Pistilli, P., Popa, V., Pugliese, V., Rainó, A., Reynoldson, J., Ronga, F., Rubizzo, U., Sanzgiri, A., Satriano, C., Scapparone, E., Scholberg, K., Sciubba, A., Serra-Lugaresi, P., Severi, M., Sioli, M., Spinelli, P., Spinetti, M., Spurio, M., Steinberg, R., Stone, J.L., Sulak, L.R., Surdo, A., Togo, V., Walter, C.W., Webb, R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 1999
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Summary:The upward-going muon flux ( E μ > 1 GeV) has been measured with the underground detector MACRO at LNGS. The total number of measured events is compatible at the 8% c.l. with the expected one. Moreover, the zenith angular distribution of the measured flux does not match the expectation showing a deficit in the vertical direction where the apparatus performance is best known. Assuming an oscillation hypothesis with parameters in the range recently suggested to solve the atmospheric neutrino problem, the agreement increases, but not significantly. The results of an indirect dark matter search for a signal of WIMPs from the core of the Sun and of the Earth are given. Neutrino astronomy with MACRO is giving interesting results regarding possible high energy neutrino emission from pointlike sources and coincidences of neutrino events with γ-ray bursts.
ISSN:0920-5632
1873-3832
DOI:10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00454-X