Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array

IceTop is the surface instrumentation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. It is designed to measure extensive air showers of cosmic rays in the primary energy range from PeV to EeV. Air showers induced by heavier primary particles develop earlier in the atmosphere and produce more...

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Main Authors: Kang, Donghwa, Browne, Sally-Ann, Haungs, Andreas
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2021
Subjects:
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
FOS Physical sciences
South Pole
South pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2109.02506
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02506
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2109.02506 2023-05-15T18:22:30+02:00 Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array Kang, Donghwa Browne, Sally-Ann Haungs, Andreas 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2109.02506 https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02506 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE FOS Physical sciences Article CreativeWork article Preprint 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2109.02506 2022-03-10T13:41:35Z IceTop is the surface instrumentation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. It is designed to measure extensive air showers of cosmic rays in the primary energy range from PeV to EeV. Air showers induced by heavier primary particles develop earlier in the atmosphere and produce more muons observable at ground level than lighter cosmic rays with the same primary energy. Therefore, the fraction of muons to all charged particles measured by IceTop characterizes the mass of primary particles. This analysis seeks a muon-based mass sensitive parameter by using the charge signal distribution for each individual cosmic ray event. In this contribution we present the analysis method for the mass-sensitive parameter and our studies of its possible application to the measurement of cosmic ray mass composition with the IceTop surface array. : Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021). See arXiv:2107.06966 for all IceCube contributions Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole
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FOS Physical sciences
spellingShingle High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
FOS Physical sciences
Kang, Donghwa
Browne, Sally-Ann
Haungs, Andreas
Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array
topic_facet High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
FOS Physical sciences
description IceTop is the surface instrumentation of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. It is designed to measure extensive air showers of cosmic rays in the primary energy range from PeV to EeV. Air showers induced by heavier primary particles develop earlier in the atmosphere and produce more muons observable at ground level than lighter cosmic rays with the same primary energy. Therefore, the fraction of muons to all charged particles measured by IceTop characterizes the mass of primary particles. This analysis seeks a muon-based mass sensitive parameter by using the charge signal distribution for each individual cosmic ray event. In this contribution we present the analysis method for the mass-sensitive parameter and our studies of its possible application to the measurement of cosmic ray mass composition with the IceTop surface array. : Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021). See arXiv:2107.06966 for all IceCube contributions
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Kang, Donghwa
Browne, Sally-Ann
Haungs, Andreas
author_facet Kang, Donghwa
Browne, Sally-Ann
Haungs, Andreas
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title Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array
title_short Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array
title_full Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array
title_fullStr Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array
title_full_unstemmed Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array
title_sort studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the icetop surface array
publisher arXiv
publishDate 2021
url https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2109.02506
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02506
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