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    Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector

    M. A. Acero2, P. Adamson12, L. Aliaga12, T. Alion39, V. Allakhverdian27, S. Altakarli46, N. Anfimov27, A. Antoshkin27,31, A. Aurisano6 et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

    A. Aurisano6, A. Back24, C. Backhouse44, M. Baird19,39,45, N. Balashov27, P. Baldi25, B. A. Bambah17, S. Bashar43, K. Bays4,21, S. Bending44, R. Bernstein12, V. Bhatnagar32, B. Bhuyan14, J. Bian25,31, J. Blair16, A. C. Booth39, P. Bour9, C. Bromberg29, N. Buchanan8, A. Butkevich22, S. Calvez8, M. Campbell44, T. J. Carroll42, E. Catano-Mur24,47, A. Cedeno46, S. Childress12, B. C. Choudhary11, B. Chowdhury35, T. E. Coan37, M. Colo47, L. Corwin36, L. Cremonesi44, G. S. Davies19, P. F. Derwent12, P. Ding12, Z. Djurcic1, D. Doyle8, E. C. Dukes45, H. Duyang35, S. Edayath7, R. Ehrlich45, G. J. Feldman15, P. Filip23, W. Flanagan10, M. J. Frank34,45, H. R. Gallagher43, R. Gandrajula29, F. Gao33, S. Germani44, A. Giri18, R. A. Gomes13, M. C. Goodman1, V. Grichine28, M. Groh19, R. Group45, B. Guo35, A. Habig30, F. Hakl20, J. Hartnell39, R. Hatcher12, A. Hatzikoutelis41, K. Heller31, J. Hewes6, A. Himmel12, A. Holin44, B. Howard19, J. Huang42, J. Hylen12, F. Jediny9, C. Johnson8, M. Judah8, I. Kakorin27, D. Kalra32, D. M. Kaplan21, R. Keloth7, O. Klimov27, L. W. Koerner16, L. Kolupaeva27, S. Kotelnikov28, A. Kreymer12, Ch. Kulenberg27, A. Kumar32, C. D. Kuruppu35, V. Kus9, T. Lackey19, K. Lang42, S. Lin8, M. Lokajicek23, J. Lozier4, S. Luchuk22, S. Magill1, W. A. Mann43, M. L. Marshak31, V. Matveev22, D. P. Méndez39, M. D. Messier19, H. Meyer46, T. Miao12, W. H. Miller31, S. R. Mishra35, A. Mislivec31, R. Mohanta17, A. Moren30, L. Mualem4, M. Muether46, S. Mufson19, K. Mulder44, R. Murphy19, J. Musser19, D. Naples33, N. Nayak25, J. K. Nelson47, R. Nichol44, G. Nikseresht21, E. Niner12, A. Norman12, T. Nosek5, A. Olshevskiy27, T. Olson43, J. Paley12, R. B. Patterson4, G. Pawloski31, O. Petrova27, R. Petti35, D. D. Phan42, R. K. Plunkett12, B. Potukuchi26, C. Principato45, F. Psihas19, V. Raj4, R. A. Rameika12, B. Rebel12,48, P. Rojas8, V. Ryabov28, O. Samoylov27, M. C. Sanchez24, P. Schreiner1, I. S. Seong25, P. Shanahan12, A. Sheshukov27, P. Singh11, V. Singh3, E. Smith19, J. Smolik9, P. Snopok21, N. Solomey46, E. Song45, A. Sousa6, K. Soustruznik5, M. Strait31, L. Suter12, A. Sutton45, R. L. Talaga1, P. Tas5, R. B. Thayyullathil7, J. Thomas44,48, E. Tiras24, S. C. Tognini13, D. Torbunov31, J. Tripathi32, A. Tsaris12, Y. Torun21, J. Urheim19, P. Vahle47, J. Vasel19, L. Vinton39, P. Vokac9, T. Vrba9, M. Wallbank6, B. Wang37, T. K. Warburton24, M. Wetstein24, M. While36, D. Whittington40,19, S. G. Wojcicki38, J. Wolcott43, N. Yadav14, A. Yallappa Dombara40, K. Yonehara12, S. Yu1,21, S. Zadorozhnyy22, J. Zalesak23, and R. Zwaska12 (NOvA Collaboration)

    • 1Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
    • 2Universidad del Atlantico, Km. 7 antigua via a Puerto Colombia, Barranquilla, Colombia
    • 3Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India
    • 4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
    • 5Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
    • 6Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
    • 7Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi 682 022, India
    • 8Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1875, USA
    • 9Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic
    • 10University of Dallas, 1845 E Northgate Drive, Irving, Texas 75062 USA
    • 11Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
    • 12Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
    • 13Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil
    • 14Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, 781 039, India
    • 15Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    • 16Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
    • 17School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500 046, India
    • 18Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 502 205, India
    • 19Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
    • 20Institute of Computer Science, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 07 Prague, Czech Republic
    • 21Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA
    • 22Inst. for Nuclear Research of Russia, Academy of Sciences 7a, 60th October Anniversary prospect, Moscow 117312, Russia
    • 23Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic
    • 24Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
    • 25Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
    • 26Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Jammu, Jammu Tawi, 180 006, Jammu and Kashmir, India
    • 27Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region 141980, Russia
    • 28Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics Division, Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia
    • 29Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
    • 30Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
    • 31School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
    • 32Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160 014, India
    • 33Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
    • 34Department of Physics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, USA
    • 35Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
    • 36South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
    • 37Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
    • 38Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
    • 39Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
    • 40Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse New York 13210, USA
    • 41Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
    • 42Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
    • 43Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
    • 44Physics and Astronomy Dept., University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
    • 45Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
    • 46Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67206, USA
    • 47Department of Physics, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
    • 48Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

    Phys. Rev. D 99, 122004 – Published 28 June, 2019

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.122004

    Abstract

    Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon (Nμ2) event rates which has an opposite phase to the seasonal variation in the atmospheric temperature. The strength of the seasonal multiple-muon variation is shown to increase as a function of the muon multiplicity. However, no significant dependence of the strength of the seasonal variation of the multiple-muon variation is seen as a function of the muon zenith angle, or the spatial or angular separation between the correlated muons.

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