Publication: Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon
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2011
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Adamson, P., C. Andreopoulos, D.S. Ayres, C. Backhouse, G. Barr, W.L. Barrett, M. Bishai, et al. 2011. “Observation in the MINOS Far Detector of the Shadowing of Cosmic Rays by the Sun and Moon.” Astroparticle Physics 34 (6) (January): 457–466. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.10.010.
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The shadowing of cosmic ray primaries by the moon and sun was observed by the MINOS far detector at a depth of 2070 mwe using 83.54 million cosmic ray muons accumulated over 1857.91 live-days. The shadow of the moon was detected at the 5.6 σ level and the shadow of the sun at the 3.8 σ level using a log-likelihood search in celestial coordinates. The moon shadow was used to quantify the absolute astrophysical pointing of the detector to be 0.17 ± 0.12°. Hints of interplanetary magnetic field effects were observed in both the sun and moon shadow
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Cosmic rays, Moon shadow, Sun shadow, Muons, Interplanetary magnetic field
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