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An experiment is now operational at the Haverah Park EAS detector array to study the muon content of photon induced EAS. The muon detector (~315 MeV threshold) consists of 40 m2 of liquid scintillator shielded by barytes/lead. The recording of the muon response is triggered by the University of Leeds GREX array at a rate of ~6 minute −1. The aim is to identify EAS coming directly from sources such as Cygnus X-3 and to compare the muon content with background nucleus induced EAS.
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Beard, M.W., Blake, P.R., Bullock, A.D., Edwards, P.J., Nash, W.F., Stanley, G.B. (1987). Muons in Photon Induced Extensive Air Showers. In: Turver, K.E. (eds) Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 199. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3831-1_45
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