Title
Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units: the KM3NeT Collaboration
Author
Ageron, M.
van der Knaap, F.G.P.
Publication year
2020
Abstract
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV–PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232–3386 m seawater depth is obtained.
Subject
KM3NeT
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7629-z
TNO identifier
874934
Publisher
Springer, Heidelberg, Germany
ISSN
1434-6044
Source
European Physical Journal C, 80 (80)
Bibliographical note
Namens TNO: Knaap, F.G.P. van der
Document type
article