FOR THE ICECUBE COLLABORATION

• Main Authors: K. G. Andeen, C. Song, K. Rawlins
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.561.8776; http://galprop.stanford.edu/elibrary/icrc/2007/preliminary/pdf/icrc1285.pdf

See special section of these proceedings Abstract: Important information pertaining to the origin of high-energy cosmic rays can be gained by studying their mass composition in the region of the knee ( 3 PeV). Thus, air showers have been ob-served at the South Pole using the SPASE-2 detector, which measures the electronic component at the surface, and the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope, which measures the coincident muonic component in deep ice. These two components, together with a Monte Carlo simulation and a well-understood analysis method, yield the relative cosmic ray composition in the knee region. We report on the efcacy of a new neural network technique for obtaining a composition result with the SPASE-2/AMANDA-II detectors.