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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ftubkarlsruhe:oai:EVASTAR-Karlsruhe.de:1000132610 2023-05-15T18:22:24+02:00 Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array IceCube Collaboration Kang, Donghwa Browne, Sally Haungs, Andreas 2021-05-11 https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000132610 eng eng https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000132610 ddc:530 Physics info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530 doc-type:conferenceObject Text info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2021 ftubkarlsruhe 2023-01-29T23:10:47Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) South Pole |
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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. |
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IceCube Collaboration Kang, Donghwa Browne, Sally Haungs, Andreas |
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IceCube Collaboration Kang, Donghwa Browne, Sally Haungs, Andreas |
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Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array |
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Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array |
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Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array |
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Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array |
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Studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the IceTop surface array |
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studies of a muon-based mass sensitive parameter for the icetop surface array |
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