Hadronic Scaling and the Charge Ratio of Cosmic Ray Muons
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The charge ratio of cosmic ray muons produced by meson decay has been calculated with the assumption of scaling for high energy hadronic interactions. The values obtained are in good agreement with experimental results for muons coming from primary collision energies up to 40 TeV. This agreement and the observed near energy independence of the measured charge ratios support the scaling hypothesis with the limitation that they are insensitive to secondaries produced at very small fractions of the primary energy.
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