Seasonal variation of the underground cosmic muon flux observed at Daya Bay

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Published 2 January 2018 • © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2018, January 2018 Citation F.P. An et al JCAP01(2018)001 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/01/001