Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 56-62 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
Volume | 675 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 May 21 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Electromagnetic shower identification
- Energy reconstruction
- High energy muons
- Neutrino telescope
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Instrumentation