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Search for cosmic ray sources using muons detected by the MACRO experiment
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Search for cosmic ray sources using muons detected by the MACRO experiment

M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, G. Auriemma, D. Bakari, A. Baldini, G.C. Barbarino, B.C. Barish, G. Battistoni, Y. Becherini, R. Bellotti, …
Astroparticle physics, v 18(6), pp 615-627
2003
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http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204188View

Abstract

MACRO Underground muons X-binary sources γ-ray sources
The MACRO underground detector at Gran Sasso Laboratory recorded 60 million secondary cosmic ray muons from February 1989 until December 2000. Different techniques were used to analyze this sample in search for density excesses from astrophysical point-like sources. No evidence for DC excesses for any source in an all-sky survey is reported. In addition, searches for muon excess correlated with the known binary periods of Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-1, and searches for statistically significant bursting episodes from known γ-ray sources are also proved negative.

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