Atmospheric muons reconstruction with Antares
Description
The ANTARES collaboration is building a neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. This detector contains 900 photomultiplier tubes, dispatched on 12 lines, in order to detect Cerenkov light from muon induced by neutrino interactions in the the vicinity of the detector. Currently the first 5 lines have been deployed. A first task consists in studying the stability of the detector calibration, which is a necessary step to understand the detector response. Then we studied optical properties of water, for this we developed a reconstruction method dedicated to LED Beacon. The extracted parameters are compatible with earlier measurements. A quality criteria to reject badly reconstructed track has been developed based on the likelihood of the tracks fit versus point fit. This has been applied to real data and a preliminary analysis of atmospheric muons with a 5-lines detector is performed. (author)
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Reconstruction de muons atmospheriques avec ANTARES
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 165 p.
- Report number
- CPPM-T--2007-02
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 40057075
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Thesis
- Descriptors DEI
- CALIBRATION; CHERENKOV COUNTERS; CHERENKOV RADIATION; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; MUON DETECTION; NEUTRINO DETECTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; UNDERWATER FACILITIES; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NEUTRINOS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 105 refs.; Also available from Universite de la Mediterranee Aix-Marseille-2 Jardin du Pharo, 58, boulevard Charles-Livon, 13264 - Marseille Cedex 07 (France)