Atmospheric Muon Flux at Sea Level, Underground, and Underwater

Authors:
  • EBE. V. Bugaev
    E. V. Bugaev
  • AMA. Misaki
    A. Misaki
  • VNV. A. Naumov
    V. A. Naumov
  • TST. S. Sinegovskaya
    T. S. Sinegovskaya
  • SSS. I. Sinegovsky
    S. I. Sinegovsky
  • NTN. Takahashi
    N. Takahashi

Abstract
The vertical sea-level muon spectrum at energies above 1 GeV and the underground/underwater muon intensities at depths up to 18 km w.e. are calculated. The results are particularly collated with a great body of the ground-level, underground, and underwater muon data. In the hadron-cascade calculations, the growth with energy of inelastic cross sections and pion, kaon, and nucleon generation in pion-nucleus collisions are taken into account. For evaluating the prompt-muon contribution, the two phenomenological approaches to the charm production problem (RQPM and QGSM) are applied. To solve the muon transport equation at large depths of a homogeneous medium, a semi-analytical method is used and the results are checked for accuracy by direct Monte Carlo. The simple fitting formulas describing some numerical results are given.