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Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016 (2016), 1; 32. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta
(ALICE Collaboration) Adam, J.; ...; Antičić, Tome; ...; Erhardt, Filip; ...; Gotovac, Sven; ...; Mudnić, Eugen; ...; Planinić, Mirko; ...; Poljak, Nikola; ...; Simatović, Goran; ...; Utrobičić, Antonija; ...; Vicković, Linda; ...; Zyzak, M. More authors...

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Adam, J., Antičić, T., Erhardt, F., Gotovac, S., Mudnić, E., Planinić, M. ... Zyzak, M. (2016). Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016. (1). doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta

Adam, J., et al. "Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2016, no. 1, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta

Adam, J., Tome Antičić, Filip Erhardt, Sven Gotovac, Eugen Mudnić, Mirko Planinić, Nikola Poljak, et al. "Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2016, no. 1 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta

Adam, J., et al. (2016) 'Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider', Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(1). doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta

Adam J, Antičić T, Erhardt F, Gotovac S, Mudnić E, Planinić M, and sur.. Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2024 December 29];2016(1). doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta

J. Adam, et al., "Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2016, no. 1, 2016. [Online]. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:217:094810. [Accessed: 29 December 2024]

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Title (english)Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
AuthorJ. Adam
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AuthorTome Antičić
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AuthorFilip Erhardt
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AuthorSven Gotovac
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AuthorEugen Mudnić
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AuthorMirko Planinić
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AuthorNikola Poljak
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AuthorGoran Simatović
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AuthorAntonija Utrobičić
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AuthorLinda Vicković
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AuthorM. Zyzak
CollaborationALICE Collaboration
Author's institutionUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Science
(Department of Physics)
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		NATURAL SCIENCES
Physics
Abstract (english)
ALICE is one of four large experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, specially designed to study particle production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Located 52 meters underground with 28 meters of overburden rock, it has also been used to detect muons produced by cosmic ray interactions in the upper atmosphere. In this paper, we present the multiplicity distribution of these atmospheric muons and its comparison with Monte Carlo simulations. This analysis exploits the large size and excellent tracking capability of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber. A special emphasis is given to the study of high multiplicity events containing more than 100 reconstructed muons and corresponding to a muon areal density ρμ>5.9 m −2. Similar events have been studied in previous underground experiments such as ALEPH and DELPHI at LEP. While these experiments were able to reproduce the measured muon multiplicity distribution with Monte Carlo simulations at low and intermediate multiplicities, their simulations failed to describe the frequency of the highest multiplicity events. In this work we show that the high multiplicity events observed in ALICE stem from primary cosmic rays with energies above 1016 eV and that the frequency of these events can be successfully described by assuming a heavy mass composition of primary cosmic rays in this energy range. The development of the resulting air showers was simulated using the latest version of QGSJET to model hadronic interactions. This observation places significant constraints on alternative, more exotic, production mechanisms for these events.
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Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Original scientific paper
Publication statusPublished
Peer reviewPeer review - international
Publication versionPublished version
Journal titleJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Numberingvol. 2016, no. 1, 32
e-ISSN1475-7516
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:217:094810
Publication2016
Document URLhttp://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032/meta
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Public noteContent from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received August 7, 2015. Accepted December 17, 2015. Published January 19, 2016.
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