Atmospheric muon background in the ANTARES detector
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S. Cecchini a , E. Korolkova , A. Margiotta , L. Thompson , on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration (a) Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita’ di Bologna e Sezione INFN di Bologna, viale C. Berti Pichat, 6/2, 40127 Bologna, Italy (b) Also IASF/CNR, Bologna, Italy (c) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom Presenter: A. Margiotta ([email protected]), ita-margiottaA-abs1-og25-poster
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تاریخ انتشار 2005