A method for detection of muon induced electromagnetic showers with the ANTARES detector
The primary aim of ANTARES is neutrino astronomy with upward going muons created in charged current muon neutrino interactions in the detector and its surroundings. Downward going muons are background for neutrino searches. These muons are the decay products of cosmic-ray collisions in the Earths at...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/35318 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/35318 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Electromagnetic shower identification Energy reconstruction High energy muons Neutrino telescope ANTARES Atmospheric muons Charged currents Decay products Electro-magnetic showers High energy muon Muon neutrino Neutrino astronomy Neutrino telescopes Detectors Electromagnetism High energy physics Charged particles FISICA APLICADA |
| Resumo: | The primary aim of ANTARES is neutrino astronomy with upward going muons created in charged current muon neutrino interactions in the detector and its surroundings. Downward going muons are background for neutrino searches. These muons are the decay products of cosmic-ray collisions in the Earths atmosphere far above the detector. This paper presents a method to identify and count electromagnetic showers induced along atmospheric muon tracks with the ANTARES detector. The method is applied to both cosmic muon data and simulations and its applicability to the reconstruction of muon event energies is demonstrated. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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