Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers
Muons produced in extensive air showers have large decay lengths and small radiative energy losses, enabling a large fraction of them to reach surface and underground detector arrays while keeping relevant information about the hadronic interactions that occurred high in the atmosphere. We can relat...
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| author | Kravka Antonín Santos Eva Stadelmaier Maximilian Yushkov Alexey |
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| description | Muons produced in extensive air showers have large decay lengths and small radiative energy losses, enabling a large fraction of them to reach surface and underground detector arrays while keeping relevant information about the hadronic interactions that occurred high in the atmosphere. We can relate a muon’s arrival time and position at the detector to its production depth in the atmosphere. The total delay of muons with respect to the shower plane is primarily due to their geometric path and energy, we call these contributions the geometric and kinematic delays, respectively. We are working on the improvement of the current kinematic delay parameterizations using Deep Neural Networks for muons arriving at surface and underground detector arrays. We aim to reconstruct the longitudinal profile of muons for future arrays of buried scintillator detectors at energies from around the second knee to the ankle of the cosmic ray spectrum, where there is an overlap with the nominal energies at the LHC. Given the low acceptance of scintillator detectors to inclined air showers and the richness of the forward physics near the shower core, we aim at applying a radial cut of 200 m instead of the usual 1000 m used in previous works. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-03ddba040c5e439e8f714fa2a90cde442023-05-02T09:31:19ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2023-01-012830500910.1051/epjconf/202328305009epjconf_uhecr2023_05009Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showersKravka Antonín0Santos Eva1Stadelmaier Maximilian2Yushkov Alexey3Czech Technical University - Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical EngineeringFZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of SciencesFZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of SciencesFZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of SciencesMuons produced in extensive air showers have large decay lengths and small radiative energy losses, enabling a large fraction of them to reach surface and underground detector arrays while keeping relevant information about the hadronic interactions that occurred high in the atmosphere. We can relate a muon’s arrival time and position at the detector to its production depth in the atmosphere. The total delay of muons with respect to the shower plane is primarily due to their geometric path and energy, we call these contributions the geometric and kinematic delays, respectively. We are working on the improvement of the current kinematic delay parameterizations using Deep Neural Networks for muons arriving at surface and underground detector arrays. We aim to reconstruct the longitudinal profile of muons for future arrays of buried scintillator detectors at energies from around the second knee to the ankle of the cosmic ray spectrum, where there is an overlap with the nominal energies at the LHC. Given the low acceptance of scintillator detectors to inclined air showers and the richness of the forward physics near the shower core, we aim at applying a radial cut of 200 m instead of the usual 1000 m used in previous works.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/09/epjconf_uhecr2023_05009.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Kravka Antonín Santos Eva Stadelmaier Maximilian Yushkov Alexey Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers EPJ Web of Conferences |
| title | Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers |
| title_full | Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers |
| title_fullStr | Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers |
| title_short | Reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers |
| title_sort | reconstruction of the muon production longitudinal profiles in extensive air showers |
| url | https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/09/epjconf_uhecr2023_05009.pdf |
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