FAQ - muon flux and its starred buddies in neutron background

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FAQ - muon flux and its starred buddies in neutron background

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I attach a URL from a government website.

https://cosmic.lbl.gov/SKliewer/Cosmic_ ... %204%20GeV.

Muons are potent and never enter from space, but are created in the atmosphere for the most part via a number of high energy matter nuclei, (mostly H and He),hitting atmospheric gases to produce collisional star events. This staring action continues all the way to the ground. Only about 1 muon per square centimetre makes it to ground level. Thus, in our neutron counting efforts, the background is due to muons and their neutron creating stars. There are virtually no terrestrial generated neutrons at ground level. All sea level neutrons are due to cosmic rays and their muon stars within the atmosphere.

High background levels in any supposed amateur neutron counter are just not there and prove that you do not have a neutron detector system that is functional.

Muons can have tremendous energies due to the tremendous energies of the cosmic ray matter particles that create them. GeV energies are the norm for many cosmic rays entering our atmosphere.

This post has nothing to do with muon catalyzed fusion which is a complete impossibility in amateur hands. It is merely a FAQ related to the origin of all neutron background counting in a properly setup neutron counter system.

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