Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector
Creators: name: Acero, M. A.
name: Adamson, P.
name: Aliaga, L.
name: Alion, T.
name: Allakhverdian, V.
name: Altakarli, S.
name: Anmov, N.
name: Antoshkin, A.
name: Aurisano, A.
name: Back, A.
name: Backhouse, C.
name: Baird, M.
name: Balashov, N.
name: Baldi, P.
name: Bambah, B. A.
name: Bashar, S.
name: Bays, K.
name: Bending, S.
name: Bernstein, R.
name: Bhatnagar, V.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Bian, J.
name: Blair, J.
name: Booth, A. C.
name: Bour, P.
name: Bromberg, C.
name: Buchanan, N.
name: Butkevich, A.
name: Calvez, S.
name: Campbell, M.
name: Carroll, T. J.
name: Catano-Mur, E.
name: Cedeno, A.
name: Childress, S.
name: Choudhary, B. C.
name: Chowdhury, B.
name: Coan, T. E.
name: Colo, M.
name: Corwin, L.
name: Cremonesi, L.
name: Davies, G. S.
name: Derwent, P. F.
name: Ding, P.
name: Djurcic, Z.
name: Doyle, D.
name: Dukes, E. C.
name: Duyang, H.
name: Edayath, S.
name: Ehrlich, R.
name: Feldman, G. J.
name: Filip, P.
name: Flanagan, W.
name: Frank, M. J.
name: Gallagher, H. R.
name: Gandrajula, R.
name: Gao, F.
name: Germani, S.
name: Giri, A.
name: Gomes, R. A.
name: Goodman, M. C.
name: Grichine, V.
name: Groh, M.
name: Group, R.
name: Guo, B.
name: Habig, A.
name: Hakl, F.
name: Hartnell, J.
name: Hatcher, R.
name: Hatzikoutelis, A.
name: Heller, K.
name: Hewes, V
name: Himmel, A.
name: Holin, A.
name: Howard, B.
name: Huang, J.
name: Hylen, J.
name: Jediny, F.
name: Johnson, C.
name: Judah, M.
name: Kakorin, I.
name: Kalra, D.
name: Kaplan, D. M.
name: Keloth, R.
name: Klimov, O.
name: Koerner, L. W.
name: Kolupaeva, L.
name: Kotelnikov, S.
name: Kreymer, A.
name: Kulenberg, Ch.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Kuruppu, C. D.
name: Kus, V.
name: Lackey, T.
name: Lang, K.
name: Lin, S.
name: Lokajicek, M.
name: Lozier, J.
name: Luchuk, S.
name: Magill, S.
name: Mann, W. A.
name: Marshak, M. L.
name: Matveev, V.
name: Mendez, D. P.
name: Messier, M. D.
name: Meyer, H.
name: Miao, T.
name: Miller, W. H.
name: Mishra, S. R.
name: Mislivec, A.
name: Mohanta, R.
name: Moren, A.
name: Mualem, L.
name: Muether, M.
name: Mufson, S.
name: Mulder, K.
name: Murphy, R.
name: Musser, J.
name: Naples, D.
name: Nayak, N.
name: Nelson, J. K.
name: Nichol, R.
name: Nikseresht, G.
name: Niner, E.
name: Norman, A.
name: Nosek, T.
name: Olshevskiy, A.
name: Olson, T.
name: Paley, J.
name: Patterson, R. B.
name: Pawloski, G.
name: Petrova, O.
name: Petti, R.
name: Phan, D. D.
name: Plunkett, R. K.
name: Potukuchi, B.
name: Principato, C.
name: Psihas, F.
name: Raj, V.
name: Rameika, R. A.
name: Rebel, B.
name: Rojas, P.
name: Ryabov, V.
name: Samoylov, O.
name: Sanchez, M. C.
name: Schreiner, P.
name: Seong, I. S.
name: Shanahan, P.
name: Sheshukov, A.
name: Singh, P.
name: Singh, V.
name: Smith, E.
name: Smolik, J.
name: Snopok, P.
name: Solomey, N.
name: Song, E.
name: Sousa, A.
name: Soustruznik, K.
name: Strait, M.
name: Suter, L.
name: Sutton, A.
name: Talaga, R. L.
name: Tas, P.
name: Thayyullathil, R. B.
name: Thomas, J.
name: Tiras, E.
name: Tognini, S. C.
name: Torbunov, D.
name: Tripathi, J.
name: Tsaris, A.
name: Torun, Y.
name: Urheim, J.
name: Vahle, P.
name: Vasel, J.
name: Vinton, L.
name: Vokac, P.
name: Vrba, T.
name: Wallbank, M.
name: Wang, B.
name: Warburton, T. K.
name: Wetstein, M.
name: While, M.
name: Whittington, D.
name: Wojcicki, S. G.
name: Wolcott, J.
name: Yadav, N.
name: Dombara, A. Yallappa
name: Yonehara, K.
name: Yu, S.
name: Zadorozhnyy, S.
name: Zalesak, J.
name: Zwaska, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon event rates which has an opposite phase to the seasonal variation in the atmospheric temperature. The strength of the seasonal multipl$ increase as a function of the muon multiplicity. However, no significant dependence of the strength of the seasonal variation of the multiple-muon variation is seen as a function of the muon zenith angle, or the spatial or angular separation between the correlated muons.