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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2017 Meeting
Section: Nuclear and Elementary Particles Physics
Title:
Monte-Carlo simulation of muon direction for particle astronomy aplications
Authors:
Bashar ALKOTBE(1), Bogdan MITRICĂ(2), Denis STANCA(2), Mihai NICULESCU-OGLINZANU(2), Iliana BRÂNCUȘ(2), Alexandru BĂLĂCEANU(2), Bogdan CĂUTIȘANU(1), Alexandru GHERGHEL-LASCU(2), Andreea MUNTEANU(2), Paul DOLEA(3), Octavian CRISTEA(3)
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Affiliation:
1) Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, P.O.B. MG-11, Romania
2) Horia Hulubei Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, P.O.B.MG-6, Romania
3) BITNET Res Ctr Sensors & Syst, Cluj Napoca, Romania
E-mail
bashar_besho55@yahoo.com
Keywords:
Cosmic rays, Monte-Carlo simulation, particle astronomy, muon
Abstract:
We report on the Monte-Carlo simulation results in order to see the difference between the cosmic ray primary particle's angle of incidence and the muon's azimuth. The simulations have been performed using the CORSIKA code applied for different primary particle energies and incident angles. The CORSIKA code is a versatile program for particular simulation of cosmic ray extensive air showers induced by high energetic primary cosmic rays. The observed difference between the primary particle’s incident angle and the muon azimuth is smaller with the increase of the muon’s energy. The difference decreases from several degrees up to less than 0.1 degrees for muon’s energies greater than 150 GeV. Based on the results we had started some simultaneous measurements of the underground muon flux correlated with observation of the sky by using an optical telescope. The measurements of the muon flux are currently in progress using the directional detector (Si-RO) located in the underground laboratory of IFIN-HH from Slanic Prahova.
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