Measurement of the underground atmospheric muon charge ratio using the MINOS near detector

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Adamson, P ^h   Andreopoulos, C ^w   Auty, D J ^aa   Ayres, D S ^a   Backhouse, C ^u   Barr, G ^u   Barrett, W L ^af   Bhattarai, P ^s   Bishai, M ^d   Blake, A ^f   Bock, G J ^h   Boehnlein, D J ^h   Bogert, D ^h   Budd, S ^a   Cavanaugh, S ^j   Cherdack, D ^ad   Childress, S ^h   Choudhary, B C ^h,ah   Coelho, J A B ^g   Coleman, S J ^ag   Corwin, L ^m   Cronin Hennessy, D ^r   Damiani, D ^ag,ai   Danko, I Z ^v   De Jong, J K ^l,u   Devenish, N E ^aa   Diwan, M V ^d   Dorman, M ^q   Escobar, C O ^g   Evans, J J ^q   Falk, E ^aa   Feldman, G J ^j   Fields, T H ^a   Frohne, M V ^c,k   Gallagher, H R ^ad   Gomes, R A ⁱ   Goodman, M C ^a   Gouffon, P ^x   Graf, N ^l   Gran, R ^s   Grant, N ^w   Grzelak, K ^ae   Habig, A ^s   Harris, D ^h   Harris, P G ^aa   Hartnell, J ^w,aa   Hatcher, R ^h   Himmel, A ^e   Holin, A ^q   Huang, X ^a   Hylen, J ^h   Ilic, J ^w   Irwin, G M ^z   Isvan, Z ^v   Jaffe, D E ^d   James, C ^h   Jensen, D ^h   Kafka, T ^ad   Kasahara, S M S ^r   Koizumi, G ^h   Kopp, S ^ac   Kordosky, M ^ag   Krahn, Z ^r   Kreymer, A ^h   Lang, K ^ac   Lefeuvre, G ^aa   Ling, J ^d,y   Litchfield, P J ^r   Loiacono, L ^ac   Lucas, P ^h   Mann, W A ^ad   Marshak, M L ^r   Mayer, N ^m   McGowan, A M ^a,aj   Mehdiyev, R ^ac   Meier, J R ^r   Messier, M D ^m   Michael, D G ^e   Miller, W H ^r   Mishra, S R ^y   Mitchell, J ^f   Moore, C D ^h   Morfin J ^h   Mualem, L ^e   Mufson, S ^m   Musser, J ^m   Naples, D ^v   Nelson, J K ^ag   Newman, H B ^e   Nichol, R J ^q   Nowak, J A ^r   Oliver, W P ^ad   Orchanian, M ^e   Paley, J ^a,m   Patterson, R B ^e   Pawloski, G ^z   Pearce, G F ^w   Pittam, R ^u   Plunkett, R K ^h   Qiu, X ^z   Ratchford, J ^ac   Raufer, T M ^w   Rebel, B ^h   Reichenbacher, J ^a,ak   Rodrigues, P A ^u   Rosenfeld, C ^y   Rubin, H A ^l   Ryabov, V A ^o   Sanchez, M C ^a,j,n   Saoulidou, N ^h   Schneps, J ^ad   Schreiner, P ^c   Shanahan, P ^h   Sousa, A ^j   Strait, M ^r   Tagg, N ^t   Talaga, R L ^a   Thomas, J ^q   Thomson, M A ^f   Tinti, G ^u   Toner, R ^f   Tzanakos, G ^b   Urheim, J ^m   Vahle, P ^ag   Viren, B ^d   Weber, A ^u   Webb, R C ^ab   White, C ^l   Whitehead, L ^d   Wojcicki, S G ^z   Wright, D M ^p   Yang, T ^z   Zwaska, R ^h   more..

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^h FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^j HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Holy Cross College   (United States)

^l ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^p LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^t OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^w RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^y UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^z STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^ab TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^ad TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^af WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 79952307961     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.032011     Document Type: Article

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