Mu -Meson Component of Air Shower Below the Ground

Journal Article · Mon May 15 04:00:00 EDT 1961 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.16.855· OSTI ID:4079092

Watanabe, Kenji

S>The mu meson component, observed underground, of an extensive air shower is studied. The component came from the nuclear cascade of the shower core in the ground and possibly shows a high mu concentration below the ground. The total number can be estimated independently of energy and multiplicity distributions of secondary particles of the elementary collision and also independently of some fluctuations. Experimental data on multiple penetrating particles featuring a high concentration of muons, could not be interpreted in terms of the muons, i.e., decay products within the nuclear cascades in the ground initiated by impinging nucleons of high energy in the air shower cores, even though the possible contribution of the K meson and hyperon production within nuclear cascades is taken into consideration.

• Research Organization: Osaka City Univ.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• NSA Number: NSA-15-021387
• OSTI ID: 4079092
• Journal Information: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Journal Name: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 16; ISSN 0031-9015
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

Related Subjects

ATMOSPHERE
COSMIC RADIATION
DISTRIBUTION
ENERGY
ENERGY RANGE
EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS
HYPERONS
INTERACTIONS
KAONS
LATTICES
LEVELS
MULTIPLICITY
MUONS
NUCLEONS
PHYSICS
PRODUCTION
SCATTERING
STATISTICS
UNDERGROUND