Predicting Neutron Production from Cosmic-Ray Muons.
[摘要] Fast neutrons from cosmic-ray muons are an important background to underground low energy experiments. The estimate of such background is often hampered by the difficulty of measuring and calculating neutron production with sufficient accuracy. Indeed substantial disagreement exists between the different analytical calculations performed so far, while data reported by different experiments is not always consistent. We discuss a new unified approach to estimate the neutron yield, the energy spectrum, the multiplicity, and the angular distribution from cosmic muons using the Monte Carlo simulation package FLUKA and show it gives a good description of most of the existing measurements once the appropriate corrections have been applied.
[发布日期] [发布机构] Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
[效力级别] [学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）
[关键词] Neutrons;Muons;Cosmic rays;Spectrum;Production [时效性]
