| Title: |
Muon number reconstruction with IceTop using a two-component lateral distribution function |
| Authors: |
IceCube Collaboration; Abbasi, Rasha; Ackermann, Markus; Adams, Jenni; Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar; Aguilar, Juanan; Ahlers, Markus; Alameddine, Jean-Marco; Ali, Shoukat; Amin, Najia Moureen Binte; Andeen, Karen; Argüelles, Carlos; Ashida, Yosuke; Athanasiadou, Sofia; Axani, Spencer; Babu, Rishi; Bai, Xinhua; Baines-Holmes, Joe; Balagopal V, Aswathi; Barwick, Steven W.; Bash, Simeon; Basu, Vedant; Bay, Ryan; Beatty, James; Becker Tjus, Julia; Behrens, Philipp; Beise, Jakob; Bellenghi, Chiara; Benkel, Bruno; BenZvi, Segev; Berley, David; Bernardini, Elisa; Besson, Dave; Blaufuss, Erik; Bloom, Lucas; Blot, Summer; Bodo, Ilya; Bontempo, Federico; Book Motzkin, Julia; Boscolo Meneguolo, Caterina; BOSER, Sebastian; Botner, Olga; Bottcher, Jakob; Braun, Jim; Brinson, Bennett; Brisson-Tsavoussis, Zoe; Burley, Ryan T.; Butterfield, Delaney; Campana, Michael; Carloni, Kiara; Carpio, Jose; Chattopadhyay, Sharmistha; Chau, Thien Nhan; Chen, Zheyang; Chirkin, Dmitry; Choi, Seowon; Clark, Brian; Coleman, Alan; Coleman, Peter John Cusack; Collin, Gabriel; Coloma Borja, Diego Alberto; Connolly, Amy; Conrad, Janet; Corley, Rebecca; Cowen, Doug; DE CLERCQ, Catherine; DeLaunay, James; Delgado, Diyaselis; Delmeulle, Thomas; Deng, Shuyang; Desiati, Paolo; de Vries, Krijn; de Wasseige, Gwenhaël; DeYoung, Tyce; Diaz-Velez, Juan Carlos; DiKerby, Stephen; Dittmer, Markus; Domi, Alba; Draper, Lincoln; Dueser, Lasse; Durnford, Daniel; Dutta, Kaustav; DuVernois, Michael; Ehrhardt, Thomas; Eidenschink, Leonhard; Eimer, Anna; Eller, Philipp; Ellinger, Enrico; Elsässer, Dominik; Engel, Ralph; Erpenbeck, Hannah; Esmail, Waleed; Eulig, Steven; Evans, John; Evenson, Paul; Fan, Kwok Lung; Fang, Ke; Farrag, Kareem Ramadan; Fazely, Ali; Fedynitch, Anatoli; Feigl, Nora; Finley, Chad; Fischer, Leander; Fox, Derek B.; Franckowiak, Anna; Fukami, Satoshi; Furst, Philipp; Gallagher, John; Ganster, Erik; Garcia, Alfonso; Garcia, Miles; Garg, Gopal; Genton, Eliot; Gerhardt, Lisa; Ghadimi, Ava; Glaser, Christian; Glüsenkamp, Thorsten; Gonzalez, Javier; Goswami, Sreetama; Granados, Alejandra; Grant, Darren; Gray, Shannon; Griffin, Sean; Griswold, Spencer; Groth, Kathrine Morch; Guevel, David Joseph; Günther, Christoph; Gutjahr, Pascal; Ha, Chang Hyon; Haack, Christian; Hallgren, Allan; Halve, Lasse; Halzen, Francis; Hamacher, Leon; Ha Minh, Martin; Handt, Michael; Hanson, Kael; Hardin, John; Harnisch, Alexander; Hatch, Patrick; Haungs, Andreas; Haussler, Jonas; Helbing, Klaus; Hellrung, Jonas; Henke, Brandon; Hennig, Lukas; Henningsen, Felix; Heuermann, Lars Philipp; Hewett, Rhia; Heyer, Nils; Hickford, Stephanie; Hidvegi, Attila; Hill, Colton; Hill, Gary; Hmaid, Ramy; Hoffman, Kara; Hooper, Dan; Hori, Sam; Hoshina, Kotoyo; Hostert, Matheus; Hou, Wenjie; Huber, Thomas; Hultqvist, Klas; Hymon, Karolin; Ishihara, Aya; Iwakiri, Wataru; Jacquart, Marc; Jain, Samyak; Janik, Oliver; Jansson, Matti; Jeong, Minjin; Jin, Miaochen; Kamp, Nicholas; Kang, Donghwa; Kang, Woosik; Kang, Xinyue; Kappes, Alexander; Kardum, Leonora; Karg, Timo; Karl, Martina; Karle, Albrecht; Katil, Akanksha; Kauer, Matt; Kelley, John; Khanal, Manish; Khatee Zathul, Arifa; Kheirandish, Ali; KimKu, Hani; Kiryluk, Joanna; Klein, Carolin; Klein, Spencer; Kobayashi, Yukiho; Kochocki, Alina; Koirala, Ramesh; Kolanoski, Hermann; Kontrimas, Tomas; Kopke, Lutz; Kopper, Claudio; Koskinen, Jason; Koundal, Paras; Kowalski, Marek; Kozynets, Tetiana; Krieger, Niclas; Jayakumar, Krishnamoorthi; Krishnan, Tanvi; Kruiswijk, Karlijn; Krupczak, Emmett; Kumar, Anil; Kun, Emma; Kurahashi, Naoko; Lad, Neha Navnitkumar; Lagunas Gualda, Cristina; Lallement Arnaud, Louise; Lamoureux, Mathieu; Larson, Michael J.; Lauber, Frederik Hermann; Lazar, Jeffrey; Leonard DeHolton, Kayla; Leszczynska, Agnieszka; Liao, Jiyuan; Lin, Chace; Liu, Yitong; Liubarska, Maria; Love, Christy; Lu, Lu; Lucarelli, Francesco; Luszczak, William; Lyu, Yang; Madsen, Jim; Magnus, Else; Mahn, Kendall; Makino, Yuya; Manao, Elena; Mancina, Sarah; Mand, Alicia; Maris, Ioana Codrina; Marka, Szabolcs; Marka, Zsuzsa; Marten, Lars; Martinez-Soler, Ivan; Maruyama, Reina H.; Mauro, Jonathan; Mayhew, Finn; McNally, Frank; Mead, James Vincent; Meagher, Kevin; Mechbal, Sarah; Medina, Andres; Meier, Maximilian; Merckx, Yarno; Merten, Lukas; Mitchell, Justin; Molchany, Logan; Montaruli, Teresa; Moore, Roger; Morii, Yasutsugu; Mosbrugger, Anke; Moulai, Marjon; Mousadi, Despina; Moyaux, Emile; Mukherjee, Tista; Naab, Richard; Nakos, Maxwell; Naumann, Uwe; Necker, Jannis; Neste, Ludwig; Neumann, Miriam; Niederhausen, Hans; Nisa, Mehr Un; Noda, Koji; Noell, Andreas; Novikov, Alexander; Pollmann, Anna; O'Dell, Vivian; Olivas, Alex; Ørsøe, Rasmus; Osborn, Jesse; O'Sullivan, Erin; Palusova, Veronika; Pandya, Hershal; Parenti, Andrea; Park, Nahee; Parrish, Victoria; Paudel, Ek Narayan; Paul, Larissa; Pérez de los Heros, Carlos; Pernice, Teresa; Peterson, Josh; Plum, Matthias; Ponten, Axel; Poojyam, Vaidehi; Popovych, Yuriy; Prado Rodriguez, Maria; Pries, Brandon; Procter-Murphy, Rachel; Przybylski, Gerald; Pyras, Lilly; Raab, Christoph; Rack-Helleis, John; Rad, Navid; Ravn, Martin Langgård; Rawlins, Katherine; Rechav, Zoe; Rehman, Abdul; Reistroffer, Ian; Resconi, Elisa; Reusch, Simeon; Rho, Chang Dong; Rhode, Wolfgang; Ricca, Leonardo; Riedel, Benedikt; Rifaie, Adam; Roberts, Ella; Robertson, Sally; Rongen, Martin; Rosted, Aske; Rott, Carsten; Ruhe, Tim; Ruohan, Li; Ryckbosch, Dirk; Saffer, Julian; Salazar-Gallegos, Daniel; Sampathkumar, Pranav; Sandrock, Alexander; Sanger-Johnson, Grace; Santander, Marcos; Sarkar, Subir; Savelberg, Joelle; Scarnera, Marco; Schaile, Patrick; Schaufel, Merlin; Schieler, Harald; Schindler, Sebastian; Schlickmann, Lea; Schlüter, Berit; Schlüter, Felix; Schmeisser, Nick; Schmidt, Torsten; Schröder, Frank; Schumacher, Lisa; Schwirn, Sonke; Sclafani, Stephen; Seckel, David; Seen, Leo; Seikh, Mohammad Ful Hossain; Seunarine, Suruj; Sevle Myhr, Per Arne; Shah, Riya; Shefali, Shefali; N, Shimizu; Skrzypek, Barbara; Snihur, Robert; Soedingrekso, Jan; Sogaard, Andreas; Soldin, Dennis; Soldin, Philipp; Sommani, Giacomo; Spannfellner, Christian; Spiczak, Glenn; Spiering, Christian; Stachurska, Juliana; Stamatikos, Michael; Stanev, Todor; Stezelberger, Thorsten; Sturwald, Timo; Stuttard, Thomas; Sullivan, Greg; Taboada, Ignacio; Ter-Antonyan, Samvel; Terliuk, Andrii; Thakuri, Amar; Thiesmeyer, Matthias; Thompson, Will; Thwaites, Jessie; Tilav, Serap; Tollefson, Kirsten; Toscano, Simona; Tosi, Delia; Trettin, Alexandra; Upadhyay, Anuj Kumar; Upshaw, Karriem; Vaidyanathan, Arun; Valtonen-Mattila, Nora; Valverde, Janeth; Vandenbroucke, Justin; van Eeden, Thijs; van Eijndhoven, Nick; van Rootselaar, Lene; van Santen, Jakob; Vara Carbonell, Francisco Javier; Varsi, Fahim; Venugopal, Megha; Vereecken, Matthias; Vergara Carrasco, Sebastian; Verpoest, Stef; Veske, Doğa; Vijai, Aishwarya; Villarreal, Joshua; Walck, Christian; Wang, Andrew; Warrick, Elizabeth; Weaver, Chris; Weigel, Philip; Weindl, Andreas; Weldert, Jan; Wen, Alex; Wendt, Chris; Werthebach, Johannes; Weyrauch, Mark; Whitehorn, Nathan; Wiebusch, Christopher; Williams, Dawn; Witthaus, Lucas; Wolf, Martin; Wrede, Gerrit; Xu, Xianwu; Yanez, Juan Pablo; Yao, Yuhua; Yildizci, Emre Burak; Yoshida, Shigeru; Young, Robert; Yu, Felix; Yu, Shiqi; Yuan, Tianlu; Zegarelli, Angela; Zhang, Shuo; Zhang, Zelong; Zhelnin, Pavel; Zilberman, Perri |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1824-8039. |
| Publisher Information: |
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) |
| Subject Terms: |
ddc:530; Physics; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530 |
| Description: |
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, situated at the geographic South Pole, comprises both a surface component, IceTop, and a deep in-ice component. This unique setup allows for simultaneous measurements of low-energy (∼GeV) and high-energy (≳400GeV) muons generated in cosmic-ray air showers. The correlation between these low- and high-energy muons can serve as a valuable tool not only for analyzing cosmic-ray composition but also for tests of hadronic interaction models. However, IceTop does not feature dedicated muon detectors, making it challenging to measure the low-energy muon component for individual air showers. For this reason, a two-component lateral distribution function is utilized for the simultaneous reconstruction of the primary energy and low-energy muon number on a single-event basis. This is achieved by combining analytical descriptions of the electromagnetic and muon lateral distributions. In this work, the underlying principles of this method will be discussed, as well as its capability for muon number reconstruction using the hadronic interaction models Sibyll 2.1, QGSJet-II.04, and EPOS-LHC. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper; conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-1-00-019057-1; 1-00-019057-9 |
| ISSN: |
1824-8039 |
| Relation: |
Proceedings of Science (PoC); info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1824-8039; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190579; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190579/174896363; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190579 |
| DOI: |
10.5445/IR/1000190579 |
| Availability: |
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190579; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000190579/174896363; https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000190579 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.de ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.706B257D |
| Database: |
BASE |