Published June 15, 2019
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Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector
Abstract
Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon (N_μ ≥ 2) event rates which has an opposite phase to the seasonal variation in the atmospheric temperature. The strength of the seasonal multiple-muon variation is shown to increase as a function of the muon multiplicity. However, no significant dependence of the strength of the seasonal variation of the multiple-muon variation is seen as a function of the muon zenith angle, or the spatial or angular separation between the correlated muons.
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© 2019 American Physical Society. Received 29 April 2019; published 28 June 2019. This document was prepared by the NOvA collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. National Science Foundation; the Department of Science and Technology, India; the European Research Council; the MSMT CR, GA UK, Czech Republic; the RAS, RFBR, Russian Ministry of Education and Science, RSF, and BASIS Foundation, Russia; CNPq and FAPEG, Brazil; STFC, and the Royal Society, United Kingdom; and the state and University of Minnesota. We are grateful for the contributions of the staffs of the University of Minnesota at the Ash River Laboratory and of Fermilab.Attached Files
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- DE-AC02-07CH11359
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Department of Science and Technology (India)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (Czech Republic)
- Charles University
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- Russian Science Foundation
- BASIS Foundation (Russia)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás (FAPEFG)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Royal Society
- State of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota
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