Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector

Acero, M. A.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Alion, T.; Allakhverdian, V.; Altakarli, S.; Anfimov, N.; Antoshkin, A.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Balashov, N.; Baldi, P.; Bambah, B. A.; Bashar, S.; Bays, K.; Bending, S.; Bernstein, R.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J.; Blair, J.; Booth, A. C.; Bour, P.; Bromberg, C.; Buchanan, N.; Butkevich, A.; Calvez, S.; Campbell, M.; Carroll, T. J.; Catano-Mur, E.; Cedeno, A.; Childress, S.; Choudhary, B. C.; Chowdhury, B.; Coan, T. E.; Colo, M.; Corwin, L.; Cremonesi, L.; Davies, G. S.; Derwent, P. F.; Ding, P.; Djurcic, Z.; Doyle, D.; Dukes, E. C.; Duyang, H.; Edayath, S.; Ehrlich, R.; Feldman, G. J.; Filip, P.; Flanagan, W.; Frank, M. J.; Gallagher, H. R.; Gandrajula, R.; Gao, F.; Germani, S.; Giri, A.; Gomes, R. A.; Goodman, M. C.; Grichine, V.; Groh, M.; Group, R.; Guo, B.; Habig, A.; Hakl, F.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; Hatzikoutelis, A.; Heller, K.; Hewes, J.; Himmel, A.; Holin, A.; Howard, B.; Huang, J.; Hylen, J.; Jediny, F.; Johnson, C.; Judah, M.; Kakorin, I.; Kalra, D.; Kaplan, D. M.; Keloth, R.; Klimov, O.; Koerner, L. W.; Kolupaeva, L.; Kotelnikov, S.; Kreymer, A.; Kulenberg, Ch.; Kumar, A.; Kuruppu, C. D.; Kus, V.; Lackey, T.; Lang, K.; Lin, S.; Lokajicek, M.; Lozier, J.; Luchuk, S.; Magill, S.; Mann, W. A.; Marshak, M. L.; Matveev, V.; Méndez, D. P.; Messier, M. D.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Miller, W. H.; Mishra, S. R.; Mislivec, A.; Mohanta, R.; Moren, A.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mufson, S.; Mulder, K.; Murphy, R.; Musser, J.; Naples, D.; Nayak, N.; Nelson, J. K.; Nichol, R.; Nikseresht, G.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Nosek, T.; Olshevskiy, A.; Olson, T.; Paley, J.; Patterson, R. B.; Pawloski, G.; Petrova, O.; Petti, R.; Phan, D. D.; Plunkett, R. K.; Potukuchi, B.; Principato, C.; Psihas, F.; Raj, V.; Rameika, R. A.; Rebel, B.; Rojas, P.; Ryabov, V.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M. C.; Schreiner, P.; Seong, I. S.; Shanahan, P.; Sheshukov, A.; Singh, P.; Singh, V.; Smith, E.; Smolik, J.; Snopok, P.; Solomey, N.; Song, E.; Sousa, A.; Soustruznik, K.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Sutton, A.; Talaga, R. L.; Tas, P.; Thayyullathil, R. B.; Thomas, J.; Tiras, E.; Tognini, S. C.; Torbunov, D.; Tripathi, J.; Tsaris, A.; Torun, Y.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Vasel, J.; Vinton, L.; Vokac, P.; Vrba, T.; Wallbank, M.; Wang, B.; Warburton, T. K.; Wetstein, M.; While, M.; Whittington, D.; Wojcicki, S. G.; Wolcott, J.; Yadav, N.; Yallappa Dombara, A.; Yonehara, K.; Yu, S.; Zadorozhnyy, S.; Zalesak, J.; Zwaska, R.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.122004

Title: Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector

Journal Article · Fri Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.122004· OSTI ID:1556986

Acero, M. A.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Alion, T.; Allakhverdian, V.; Altakarli, S.; Anfimov, N.; Antoshkin, A.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Backhouse, C.; Baird, M.; Balashov, N.; Baldi, P.; Bambah, B. A.; Bashar, S.; Bays, K.; Bending, S.; Bernstein, R.; Bhatnagar, V. more »

Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon event rates which has an opposite phase to the seasonal variation in the atmospheric temperature. The strength of the seasonal multipl$ 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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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: NOvA Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; SC0010120

OSTI ID:: 1556986

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1546372; OSTI ID: 1595929

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1904.12975; FERMILAB-PUB-19-179-ND; PRVDAQ; 1732616

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 12; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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