EcoMug: An Efficient COsmic MUon Generator for cosmic-ray muon applications

Cosmic Ray Muon Physics

We present a review of atmospheric and underground muon flux measurements. The relevance of these data for the atmospheric neutrino flux computation is emphasized. Possible sources of systematic errors in the measurements are discussed, focusing on the sea level muon data. Underground muon data are also reported.

Cosmic Ray Muon Detection

Cosmic-ray Muon Radiography of a Volcano

The origin and structure of the Earth's crust is still a major question. Traditionally the nearby crust of the Earth has been explored in great detail with echo-sounding or gravimetric techniques. Current measurements are based largely on these techniques, which has intrinsic uncertainties. In the present talk, a novel method with cosmic-ray muons to create a direct snapshot of the density prof...

Muon Production in Relativistic Cosmic-Ray Interactions

Cosmic-rays with energies up to 3×1020 eV have been observed. The nuclear composition of these cosmic rays is unknown but if the incident nuclei are protons then the corresponding center of mass energy is √ snn = 700 TeV. High energy muons can be used to probe the composition of these incident nuclei. The energy spectra of high-energy (> 1 TeV) cosmic ray induced muons have been measured with d...

The Cosmic Ray Muon Flux at WIPP

In this work a measurement of the muon intensity at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, NM, USA is presented. WIPP is a salt mine with a depth of 655 m. The vertical muon flux was measured with a two panels scintillator coincidence setup to Φvert = (3.10 +0.05 −0.07) 10 −7 s−1cm−2sr−1.