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Flux of Cosmic Ray Muons
at Low Energies
Jeremy Ouellette '04

Abstract:

    Using a mixture of fundamental principles, assumptions from other models and previously known data we developed a model for the low energy flux of muons at sea level. This model predicted that over the energy range 176 MeV to 409 MeV, the muon flux as a function of energy should be increasing. However, measurements showed that over this range, the muon flux was actually decreasing, with a confidence level above 99%. The absolute flux of muons in this range was at 296 MeV.

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