Precise measurements of atmospheric muon fluxes with the BESS spectrometer

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-126

  Motoki, M ^a,b   Sanuki, T ^b   Orito, S ^b   Abe, K ^b   Anraku, K ^b   Asaoka, Y ^b   Fujikawa, M ^b   Fuke, H ^b   Haino, S ^b   Imori, M ^b   Izumi, K ^b   Maeno, T ^d   Makida, Y ^e   Matsui, N ^b   Matsumoto, H ^b   Matsunaga, H ^b,c   Mitchell, J ^f   Mitsui, T ^a,d   Moiseev, A ^f   Nishimura, J ^b   Nozaki, M ^d   Ormes, J ^f   Saeki, T ^b   Sasaki, M ^f   Seo, E S ^g   Shikaze, Y ^b   Sonoda, T ^b   Streitmatter, R ^b   Suzuki, J ^e   Tanaka, K ^e   Ueda, I ^b   Wang, J Z ^g   Yajima, N ^h   Yamagami, T ^h   Yamamoto, A ^e   Yamamoto, Y ^b   Yamato, K ^d   Yoshida, T ^e   Yoshimura, K ^e   more..

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^h JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric muon; Atmospheric neutrino; Superconducting spectrometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037375229     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-6505(02)00195-0     Document Type: Article

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