Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units The KM3NeT Collaboration

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV–PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutri...

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Autores: Ageron, M., Aiello, S, Ameli, F, André, Michel|||0000-0002-0091-7279, Androulakis, Giorgos, Anghinolfi, Marco, Anton, Gisela, Ardid Ramírez, Miguel, Aublin, J., Bagatelas, Christos, Barbarino, G.C., Bertin, Vincent, Bouwhuis, M.C., Puricelli, Stefano, Chau, Nearkasen, Cherubini, Silvio, Coniglione, R., D'Amico, Antonio, Fermani, P., Lamare, P., Mannheim, Karl, Morganti, Michele, Pellegrino, Carlo, Piattelli, P., Real, Del, Santangelo, A, Sharma, Aniruddh, Tingay, S. J., Trovato, A., Zaborov, D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/184109
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/184109
https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7629-z
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Optical detectors
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Telescopes
Neutrins
Detectors òptics
Partícules (Física nuclear)
Telescopis
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV–PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232–3386 m seawater depth is obtained.

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