The vertical underground muon intensity has been measured in the slant depth range 3200-7000 hg cm(-2) (standard rock) with the completed lower part of the MACRO detector at the Gran Sasso laboratory, using a large sample of data. These observations are used to compute the surface muon flux and the primary ''all-nucleon'' spectrum. An analysis of systematic uncertainties introduced by the interaction models in the atmosphere and the underground propagation of muons is presented
In this paper we report on the data recorded with the first Antares detector line. The line was deployed on the 14th of February 2006 and was connected to the readout 2 weeks later. Environmental data for one and a half years of running are shown. Measurements of atmospheric muons from data taken from selected runs during the first 6 months of operation are presented. Performance figures in terms of time residuals and angular resolution are given. Finally the angular distribution of atmospheric muons is presented and from this the depth profile of the muon intensity is derived. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
We derive the angular power spectra of intensity and polarization of Galactic
synchrotron emission in the range 36 < l < 10^3 from the Parkes survey mapping
the southern Galactic plane at 2.4 GHz. The polarization spectra of both
electric and magnetic parity up to l \simeq 10^3 are approximated very well by
power laws with slope coefficients \simeq 1.4, quite different from the CMB
spectra. We show that no problem should arise from Galactic synchrotron for
measurements of CMB polarization in the cosmological window.Comment: 15 pages with 6 eps figures. Accepted for publication in New
Astronom
Abstract. The SLIM experiment was a large array of nuclear track detectors located at the Chacaltaya high altitude Laboratory (5230 m a.s.l.). The detector was in particular sensitive to intermediate mass magnetic monopoles, with masses 10
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