Published January 2018
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Seasonal variation of the underground cosmic muon flux observed at Daya Bay
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- An, F. P.
- McKeown, R. D.
Abstract
The Daya Bay Experiment consists of eight identically designed detectors located in three underground experimental halls named as EH1, EH2, EH3, with 250, 265 and 860 meters of water equivalent vertical overburden, respectively. Cosmic muon events have been recorded over a two-year period. The underground muon rate is observed to be positively correlated with the effective atmospheric temperature and to follow a seasonal modulation pattern. The correlation coefficient α, describing how a variation in the muon rate relates to a variation in the effective atmospheric temperature, is found to be α_(EH1) = 0.362±0.031, α_(EH2) = 0.433±0.038 and α_(EH3) = 0.641±0.057 for each experimental hall.
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© 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. Received 7 August 2017; Accepted 27 November 2017; Published 2 January 2018. Daya Bay is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong provincial government, the Shenzhen municipal government, the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging (Tsinghua University), the Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (Shandong University), the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, the University Development Fund of The University of Hong Kong, the MOE program for Research of Excellence at National Taiwan University, National Chiao-Tung University, and NSC fund support from Taiwan, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, the CNFC-RFBR joint research program, the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research of Chile, and the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program. We acknowledge Yellow River Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., and China Railway 15th Bureau Group Co., Ltd., for building the underground laboratory. We are grateful for the ongoing cooperation from the China General Nuclear Power Group and China Light and Power Company.Attached Files
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- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Guangdong Provincial Government
- Shenzhen Municipal Government
- China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group
- Tsinghua University
- Shandong University
- Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology
- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
- University of Hong Kong
- National Taiwan University
- National Chiao-Tung University
- NSF
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic
- JINR (Dubna)
- CNFC-RFBR Joint Research Program
- Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
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