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Muon Measurements with IceTop

IceCube

Collaboration

•

Javier G. Gonzalez
(
- Delaware U., Bartol Inst.
)

for the collaboration.

2019

7 pages

Part of Proceedings, 20th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2018) : Nagoya, Japan, May 21-25, 2018

Published in:

EPJ Web Conf. 208 (2019) 03003

Contribution to:

- ISVHECRI 2018

Published: 2019

DOI:

10.1051/epjconf/201920803003

Experiments:

ICECUBE

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Abstract: (EDP Sciences)

We present the measurement of the density of GeV muons in near-vertical air showers by the IceTop array at the South Pole. The muon density is measured at 600 m and 800 m lateral distance from the shower axis in air showers between 1 PeV and 100 PeV. This result can be used to constrain hadronic interaction models by comparing it with the outcome of Monte Carlo simulations. We show that some models do not produce muon densities in agreement with this result unless an unphysical composition of the primary cosmic ray flux is assumed.

muon: density
muon: production
showers: atmosphere
IceCube: surface
cosmic radiation: primary
cosmic radiation: flux
interaction: model
numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
air
pole

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