Atmospheric gamma-ray observation with the BETS detector for calibrating atmospheric neutrino flux calculations

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Kasahara, K ^a   Mochizuki, E ^a   Torii, S ^a   Tamura, T ^a   Tateyama, N ^a   Yoshida, K ^a   Yamagami, T ^a   Saito, Y ^a   Nishimura, J ^a   Murakami, H ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Komori, Y ^a   Honda, M ^a   Ohuchi, T ^a   Midorikawa, S ^a   Yuda, T ^a  

^a SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OSCILLATION; RADIATION DETECTION; THICKNESS;

EID: 18344405595     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.052004     Document Type: Article

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