TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.13.003
TI  - Muon puzzle in inclined muon bundles detected by NEVOD-DECOR
PY  - 2023/09/28
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.13.003
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 13
SP  - 003
A1  - Bogdanov, Aleksei
AU  - Barbashina, N. S.
AU  - Khokhlov, S. S.
AU  - Kindin, V. V.
AU  - Kokoulin, R. P.
AU  - Kompaniets, K. G.
AU  - Konovalova, A. Y.
AU  - Mannocchi, G.
AU  - Petrukhin, A. A.
AU  - Shutenko, V. V.
AU  - Trinchero, G.
AU  - Vorobev, V. S.
AU  - Yashin, I. I.
AU  - Yurina, E. A.
AU  - Zadeba, E. A.
AB  - The data of cosmic ray NEVOD-DECOR experiment on the investigation of inclined muon bundles for a long time period (May 2012 - March 2021) are presented. The analysis showed that the observed intensity of muon bundles at primary cosmic ray energies of about 1 EeV and higher can be compatible with the expectation in frame of widely used hadron interaction models only under the assumption of an extremely heavy mass composition. This conclusion is consistent with data of several experiments on investigations of muon content in air showers, but contradicts the available fluorescence data on $X_{\text{max}}$ which favor a light mass composition at these energies. In order to clarify the nature of the "muon puzzle", investigations of the muon bundle energy deposit in the detector material were carried out. For the first time, experimental estimates of the average energy of muons in the bundles of inclined air showers initiated by primary particles with energies from 10 to 1000 PeV have been obtained.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.13.003,
	title={{Muon puzzle in inclined muon bundles detected by NEVOD-DECOR}},
	author={A. G. Bogdanov and N. S. Barbashina and S. S. Khokhlov and V. V. Kindin and R. P. Kokoulin and K. G. Kompaniets and A. Y. Konovalova and G. Mannocchi and A. A. Petrukhin and V. V. Shutenko and G. Trinchero and V. S. Vorobev and I. I. Yashin and E. A. Yurina and E. A. Zadeba},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={003},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.13.003},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.13.003},
}