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Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Title: Study of cosmic ray events with high muon multiplicity using the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Authors: Adam, Jaroslav; Adamová, Dagmar; Aggarwal, Madan M.; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Nikita; Ahammed, Zubayer; Ahn, Sang Un; Aiola, Salvatore; Akindinov, Alexander; Alme, Johan; Helstrup, Håvard; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Altinpinar, Sedat; Djuvsland, Øystein; Haaland, Øystein Senneset; Huang, Meidana; Lønne, Per-Ivar; Nystrand, Joakim; Rehman, Attiq ur; Røhrich, Dieter; Tambave, Ganesh Jagannath; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Wagner, Boris; Zhang, Hui; Zhou, Zhuo; Zhu, Hongsheng; Arsene, Ionut Christian; Bätzing, Paul Christoph; Dordic, Olja; Lindal, Svein; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Milosevic, Jovan; Qvigstad, Henrik; Richter, Matthias; Røed, Ketil; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhao, Chengxin; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen; Alam, Sk Noor; Aleksandrov, Dimitry; Alessandro, Bruno; Alexandre, Didier; Alfaro Molina, José Rubén; Alici, Andrea; ALICE, Collaboration; Barbera, R; Barile, F; Barnaföldi, GG; Barnby, LS; Barret, V; Bartalini, P; Barth, K; Bartke, J; Bartsch, Esther; Basile, M; Bastid, N; Basu, S; Bathen, B; Batigne, G; Batista Camejo, A; Batyunya, B; Batzing, PC; Bearden, IG; Beck, H; Bedda, C; Belikov, I; Bellini, F; Bello Martinez, H; Bellwied, René; Belmont, R; Belmont-Moreno, E; Belyaev, V; Bencédi, Gyula; Beole, S; Berceanu, I; Bercuci, A; Berdnikov, Y; Berenyi, D; Bertens, RA; Berzano, D; Betev, L; Bhasin, A; Bhat, IR; Bhati, AK; Bhattacharjee, B; Bhom, J; Bianchi, Livio; Bianchi, N; Bianchin, C; Bielcik, J; Bielcikova, J; Bilandzic, A; Biswas, R; Biswas, Saikat; Bjelogrlic, S; Blair, JT; Blanco, F; Blau, D; Blume, C; Bock, F; Bogdanov, A; Bøggild, H; Boldizsár, Laszlo; Bombara, M; Book, J; Borel, H; Borissov, A; Borri, M; Bossu, F; Botta, E; Böttger, S; Braun-Munzinger, P; Bregant, Marco; Breitner, T; Broker, TA; Browning, TA; Broz, M; Brucken, EJ; Bruna, E; Bruno, GE; Budnikov, D; Buesching, H; Bufalino, S; Buncic, P; Busch, O; Buthelezi, Z; Butt, JB; Buxton, JT; Caffarri, D; Cai, X; Caines, Helen Louise; Calero Diaz, L; Caliva, A; Calvo Villar, E; Camerini, P; Carena, F; Carena, W; Carnesecchi, F; Castillo Castellanos, J; Castro, Andrew; Casula, EAR; Cavicchioli, C; Ceballos Sanchez, C; Cepila, J; Cerello, P; Cerkala, J; Chang, B; Chapeland, S; Chartier, M; Charvet, JL; Chattopadhyay, S; Chelnokov, V; Cherney, M; Cheshkov, C; Cheynis, B; Chibante Barroso, V; Chinellato, DD; Cho, S; Chochula, P; Choi, K; Chojnacki, M; Choudhury, S; Christakoglou, P; Christensen, CH; Christiansen, P; Chujo, T; Chung, SU; Chunhui, Z; Cicalo, C; Cifarelli, L; Cindolo, F; Cleymans, J; Colamaria, F; Colella, D; Collu, A; Colocci, M; Conesa Balbastre, G; Conesa Del Valle, Z; Connors, ME; Contreras, JG; Cormier, Tom; Corrales Morales, Y; Cortes Maldonado, I; Cortese, P; Cosentino, MR; Costa, Filippo; Crochet, P; Cruz Albino, R; Cuautle, E; Cunqueiro, L; Dahms, T; Dainese, A; Danu, A; Das, D; Das, I; Das, S; Dash, A; Dash, S; De, S; De Caro, A; De Cataldo, G; De Cuveland, J; De Falco, A; 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Source: 2016 ; Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics ; 1
Publication Year: 2016
Subject Terms: VDP::Kjerne- og elementærpartikkelfysikk: 431; VDP::Nuclear and elementary particle physics: 431
Description: ALICE is one of four large experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, specially designed to study particle production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Located 52 meters underground with 28 meters of overburden rock, it has also been used to detect muons produced by cosmic ray interactions in the upper atmosphere. In this paper, we present the multiplicity distribution of these atmospheric muons and its comparison with Monte Carlo simulations. This analysis exploits the large size and excellent tracking capability of the ALICE Time Projection Chamber. A special emphasis is given to the study of high multiplicity events containing more than 100 reconstructed muons and corresponding to a muon areal density __ > 5:9 m􀀀2. Similar events have been studied in previous underground experiments such as ALEPH and DELPHI at LEP. While these experiments were able to reproduce the measured muon multiplicity distribution with Monte Carlo simulations at low and intermediate multiplicities, their simulations failed to describe the frequency of the highest multiplicity events. In this work we show that the high multiplicity events observed in ALICE stem from primary cosmic rays with energies above 1016 eV and that the frequency of these events can be successfully described by assuming a heavy mass composition of primary cosmic rays in this energy range. The development of the resulting air showers was simulated using the latest version of QGSJET to model hadronic interactions. This observation places significant constraints on alternative, more exotic, production mechanisms for these events. ; publishedVersion
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
Relation: Norges forskningsråd: 255188; Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016, 1.; https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2507985; cristin:1363766
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032
Availability: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2507985; https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/032
Rights: Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no ; (c) 2016 CERN for the benefit of ALICE Collaboration.
Accession Number: edsbas.18F7D9C4
Database: BASE