Observation of heliospheric disturbances in the muon component of cosmic rays

Abstract

The possibilities of using ground-based muon hodoscopes to study heliospheric disturbances are discussed. Mapping of the matrices of muon flux angular distributions recorded at the ground level in geocentric solar ecliptic coordinates with allowance for the asymptotic directions of primary protons of galactic cosmic rays makes it possible to observe the dynamics of heliospheric disturbances in the near-Earth space. Variations in some other characteristics of muon flux angular distributions are also analyzed.