2019, Kokoulin, R. P., Barbashina, N. S., Bogdanov, A. G., Kindin, V. V., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Khomyakov, V. A., Khokhlov, S. S., Shutenko, V. V., Yashin, I. I., Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Results are presented from analyzing experimental data on 0.1–10 TeV cascade showers generated by muons in the NEVOD Cherenkov water detector. The procedure for selecting and reconstructing the parameters of events with cascades in the detector volume is discussed. Results are presented from measurements of the zenith angle distribution of cascades for different energies. The measured distributions are compared to results from calculations.

2019, Yashin, I. I., Astapov, I. I., Barbashina, N. S., Dmitrieva, A. N., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Яшин, Игорь Иванович, Астапов, Иван Иванович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Дмитриева, Анна Николаевна, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Continuous monitoring of the muon flux over wide ranges of zenith and azimuth angles with the URAGAN detector (Moscow, 55.7° N, 37.7° E, 173 m AMSL) allows detection of variations in its intensity and angular distribution. A way of locating domains of anisotropy in the muon angular distribution is described, and they are mapped in matrix form in the GSE coordinate system. The maximum depth (height) of deformation, the zenith and azimuth angles of the center in the local system, and its GSE longitude and latitude are determined for each observed domain. The GSE longitudes of the detected domains of anisotropy are available on the Internet as functions of time and can be used to monitor the heliosphere’s activity.

2019, Kokoulin, R. P., Barbashina, N. S., Bogdanov, A. G., Khokhlov, S. S., Khomyakov, V. A., Kindin, V. V., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yashin, I. I., Yurina, E. A., Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович, Юрина, Екатерина Александровна

An experiment on the measurements of the energy deposit of inclined cosmic ray muon bundles is being conducted at the experimental complex NEVOD (MEPhI). The complex includes the Cherenkov water calorimeter with a volume of 2000 m(3) and the coordinate-tracking detector DECOR with a total area of 70 m(2). The DECOR data are used to determine the local muon densities in the bundle events and their arrival directions, while the energy deposits (and hence the average muon energy loss) are evaluated from the Cherenkov calorimeter response. Average energy loss carries information about the mean muon energy in the bundles. The detection of the bundles in a wide range of muon multiplicities and zenith angles gives the opportunity to explore the energy range of primary cosmic ray particles from about 10 to 1000 PeV in the frame of a single experiment with a relatively small compact setup. Experimental results on the dependence of the muon bundle energy deposit on the zenith angle and the local muon density are presented and compared with expectations based on simulations of the EAS muon component with the CORSIKA code.

2022, Шульженко, Иван Андреевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Громушкин, Дмитрий Михайлович, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Pasyuk, N. A., Kokoulin, R. P., Kindin, V. V., Khokhlov, S. S., Gromushkin, D. M., Bogdanov, A. G., Barbashina, N. S., Shutenko, V. V., Shulzhenko, I. A., Petrukhin, A. A., Yashin, I. I., Amelchakov, M. B., Kompaniets, K. G., Konovalova, A. Y., Ovchinnikov, V. V., Yurin, K. O., Пасюк, Никита Александрович, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Овчинников, Вячеслав Васильевич, Коновалова, Алена Юрьевна, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Амельчаков, Михаил Борисович

The Experimental complex NEVOD includes several different setups for studying various components of extensive air showers (EAS) in the energy range from 1010 to 1018eV. The NEVOD-EAS array for detection of the EAS electron–photon component began its data taking in 2018. It is a distributed system of scintillation detectors installed over an area of about 104 m2. A distinctive feature of this array is its cluster organization with different-altitude layout of the detecting elements. The main goal of the NEVOD-EAS array is to obtain an estimation of the primary particle energy for events measured by various detectors of the Experimental complex NEVOD. This paper describes the design, operation principles and data processing of the NEVOD-EAS array. The criteria for the event selection and the accuracy of the EAS parameters reconstruction obtained on the simulated events are discussed. The results of the preliminary analysis of experimental data obtained during a half-year operation are presented.

2019, Mannocchi, G., Trinchero, G., Amelchakov, M. B., Barbashina, N. S., Bogdanov, A. G., Gromushkin, D. M., Zadeba, E. A., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Chiavassa, A., Likiy, O. I., Petrukhin, A. A., Stenkin, Y. V., Khokhlov, S. S., Shulzhenko, I. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yurin, K. O., Yashin, I. I., Амельчаков, Михаил Борисович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Громушкин, Дмитрий Михайлович, Задеба, Егор Александрович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Стенькин, Юрий Васильевич, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Шульженко, Иван Андреевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: The NEVOD experimental complex was created at MEPhI. It includes several facilities for studying the electron–photon, muon, and hadron components of the EAS in the energy range of 1 PeV to 1 EeV. This work presents the first results for two months of the joint operation of five facilities (NEVOD-EAS, CWD, CTS, PRISMA-32, and DECOR). The problems of synchronizing the facilities and selecting joint events are considered. The experimental data of these facilities are analyzed for different components of the EAS in overlapping energy ranges.

2019, Kovylyaeva, A. A., Astapov, I. I., Barbashina, N. S., Borog, V. V., Dmitrieva, A. N., Kompaniets, K. G., Mishutina, Y. N., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yakovleva, E. I., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Борог, Владимир Викторович, Дмитриева, Анна Николаевна, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Мишутина, Юлия Николаевна, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Results are presented from an analysis of changes in the muon flux of cosmic rays during Forbush effects, recorded by the URAGAN muon hodoscope in the period 2012–2017 and the scintillation muon hodoscope in 2016–2017. Characteristics of the Forbush effects for this period are analyzed. The obtained characteristics of muon flux variations are compared to different parameters of the near heliosphere during the Forbush effects for the 11-year cycle of solar activity.

2019, Zadeba, E. A., Borisov, A. A., Fakhrutdinov, R. M., Ivanov, S. S., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Kozhin, A. S., Petrukhin, A. A., Vorobyev, V. S., Yashin, I. I., Задеба, Егор Александрович, Борисов, Анатолий Андреевич, Фахрутдинов, Ринат Макаримович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Кожин, Анатолий Сергеевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Воробьев, Владислав Станиславович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.The new coordinate-tracking detector based on drift chambers (CTUDC) is created in MEPhI. The detector represents two planes with total area of 30 m2 placed on the opposite sides of Cherenkov water detector of 2000 m3 volume. Each plane consists of 8 large multiwire drift chambers (4000x508x112 mm3). The key advantages of these chambers are a large effective area (1.85 m2) and a good coordinate and angular resolution with a small number of measuring channels. From the beginning of 2017, CTUDC operates as a part of the experimental complex NEVOD. The detector is designed for measuring of high density muon bundles (up to 10 particles per m2) at zenith angles in the range from 30° to 90°. The results of the CTUDC operation during the last year are given, the first distributions of the events in zenith angle, muon bundle multiplicity and density obtained from the detector data are discussed.

2019, Mannocchi, G., Saavedra, O., Trinchero, G., Yurina, E. A., Barbashina, N. S., Bogdanov, A. G., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Khomyakov, V. A., Khokhlov, S. S., Shutenko, V. V., Yashin, I. I., Юрина, Екатерина Александровна, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Energy characteristics of the muon component of extensive air showers (EASes) are investigated at the NEVOD experimental complex in order to solve the problem of a detected excess of muons in EASes at ultrahigh energies, relative to simulation results. The dependences of the energy deposit of muon bundles on the zenith angle and the local muon density are obtained for primary energies of 10–1000 PeV. The results from comparing the data to simulations performed with the CORSIKA program are presented.

2019, Mannocchi, G., Trinchero, G., Yurina, E. A., Barbashina, N. S., Bogdanov, A. G., Khokhlov, S. S., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yashin, I. I., Юрина, Екатерина Александровна, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.Investigations of the energy loss of muon bundles are being conducted at the Experimental complex NEVOD. Such investigations are directed to detailed study of “muon puzzle” (the excess of multi-muon events observed in several cosmic ray experiments at ultra-high energies). Results of measurements of the muon bundle energy deposit during a long period of observations in primary cosmic ray energy range 10–1000 PeV have been obtained and have been compared with simulations performed on the basis of the CORSIKA code.

2019, Kovylyaeva, A. A., Astapov, I. I., Barbashina, N. S., Borog, V. V., Dmitrieva, A. N., Kompaniets, K. G., Mishutina, Y. N., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yakovleva, E. I., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Борог, Владимир Викторович, Дмитриева, Анна Николаевна, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Мишутина, Юлия Николаевна, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.Results of the study of variations of cosmic ray muon flux at the Earth surface during Forbush decreases registered in 2007–2018 by means of the muon hodoscope URAGAN are presented. The dynamics of the amplitude spectral index at different stages (the decrease, the minimum, and the recovery), which correspond to different phases of the influence of heliospheric disturbances on the flux of cosmic rays for the period 2012 to 2018, is considered. To investigate possible regularities in the behavior of the projection of the relative local anisotropy vector of the muon flux to the South and to the East (rS and rE) during 2007–2018, the distributions of these parameters for four phases (immediately before FD, decrease phase, minimum phase, recovery phase) were calculated.