https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714516001
Observation of high-energy cosmic rays by very inclined muon bundles in the NEVOD-DECOR experiment
1 Dipartimento di Fisica dell' Universita di Torino, Italy
2 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia
3 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino – INAF, Torino, Italy
a e-mail: saavedra@to.infn.it
b e-mail: rpkokoulin@mephi.ru
Published online: 26 June 2017
The Russian-Italian NEVOD-DECOR experiment on measurements of the local muon density spectra at various zenith angles gave the possibility to obtain important information on the primary cosmic ray flux and interaction characteristics in a wide energy range from 1015 to more than 1018 eV. At large zenith angles and high muon densities, a considerable excess of muon bundles has been found in comparison with expectation. In this paper, an update of these investigations is presented and some new results obtained by the collaboration are discussed.
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