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arXiv:astro-ph/0512125 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 5 Dec 2005 (v1), last revised 6 Dec 2005 (this version, v2)]

Title:Muon-Induced Background Study for Underground Laboratories

Authors:D.-M. Mei, A. Hime
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Abstract: We provide a comprehensive study of the cosmic-ray muon flux and induced activity as a function of overburden along with a convenient parameterization of the salient fluxes and differential distributions for a suite of underground laboratories ranging in depth from $\sim$1 to 8 km.w.e.. Particular attention is given to the muon-induced fast neutron activity for the underground sites and we develop a Depth-Sensitivity-Relation to characterize the effect of such background in experiments searching for WIMP dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay.
Comments: 18 pages, 28 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
Report number: LA-UP-05-3704
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0512125
  (or arXiv:astro-ph/0512125v2 for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0512125
Journal reference: Phys.Rev.D73:053004,2006
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.053004

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From: Dongming Mei [view email]
[v1] Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:17:28 UTC (80 KB)
[v2] Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:09:53 UTC (79 KB)
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