Multimuons in cosmic-ray events as seen in ALICE at the LHC

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68378271:_____/25:00637158 RIV/68407700:21340/25:00388757

Result on the web

<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/04/009" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/04/009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/04/009" target="_blank" >10.1088/1475-7516/2025/04/009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multimuons in cosmic-ray events as seen in ALICE at the LHC

Original language description

ALICE is a large experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Located 52 meters underground, its detectors are suitable to measure muons produced by cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere. In this paper, the studies of the cosmic muons registered by ALICE during Run 2 (2015-2018) are described. The analysis is limited to multimuon events defined as events with more than four detected muons (N-mu > 4) and in the zenith angle range 0 degrees < theta < 50 degrees. The results are compared with Monte Carlo simulations using three of the main hadronic interaction models describing the air shower development in the atmosphere: QGSJET-II-04, EPOS-LHC, and SIBYLL 2.3d. The interval of the primary cosmic-ray energy involved in the measured muon multiplicity distribution is about 4x10(15) < E-prim < 6x10(16) eV. In this interval none of the three models is able to describe precisely the trend of the composition of cosmic rays as the energy increases. However, QGSJET-II-04 is found to be the only model capable of reproducing reasonably well the muon multiplicity distribution, assuming a heavy composition of the primary cosmic rays over the whole energy range, while SIBYLL 2.3d and EPOS-LHC underpredict the number of muons in a large interval of multiplicity by more than 20% and 30%, respectively. The rate of high muon multiplicity events (N-mu > 100) obtained with QGSJET-II-04 and SIBYLL 2.3d is compatible with the data, while EPOS-LHC produces a significantly lower rate (55% of the measured rate). For both QGSJET-II-04 and SIBYLL 2.3d, the rate is close to the data when the composition is assumed to be dominated by heavy elements, an outcome compatible with the average energy E-prim similar to 10(17) eV of these events. This result places significant constraints on more exotic production mechanisms.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10304 - Nuclear physics

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

ISSN

1475-7516

e-ISSN

1475-7516

Volume of the periodical

2025

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

009

UT code for WoS article

001498401000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105003387676