3-11 July 2007
Merida, Mexico
Mexico/General timezone
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Contribution Oral

Merida, Mexico - Kabah (Holiday Inn)
HE.2.1

Measurement of the muon charge ratio in MINOS

Speakers

  • Prof. Stuart MUFSON

Primary authors

Abstract content

The complete 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking charge-separated cosmic ray muon data since the beginning of August, 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters water-equivalent in the Soudan mine, Minnesota. The data with both normal and reversed magnetic field running configurations were combined to minimize residual systematic errors in the charge ratio. Using the map of the Soudan rock overburden, the muon momenta were projected back to the surface where the charge ratio, mu+ to mu-, in the range 0.75-7.0 TeV was found to be 1.374 +/- 0.004 (stat.) ^(+0.012)_(-0.010) (sys.).

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the MINOS collaboration

Reference

Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference; Rogelio Caballero, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lukas Nellen, Federico A. Sánchez, José F. Valdés-Galicia (eds.); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008; Vol. 5 (HE part 2), pages 1245-1248