Lateral distribution of muons in IceCube cosmic ray events

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“…Fig. 15 shows the muon lateral distribution at high momenta obtained from a selection of events reconstructed with a two-track hypothesis in the 59-string detector [102], along with a fit to a compound exponential plus power-law function. Due to the size of the 59-string detector and the short live time of the analysis (1 year of data), the statistics for large separations is low and fluctuations in the data appear for track separations beyond 300 m. Still, the presence of an expected hard component at large lateral distances (high p t ) that can be described by perturbative quantum chromodynamics (a power-law behaviour) is clearly visible.…”

Section: Probe Of Cosmic Ray Interactions With Icecubementioning

confidence: 99%

Probing particle physics with IceCube

2018

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The IceCube observatory located at the South Pole is a cubic-kilometre optical Cherenkov telescope primarily designed for the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. IceCube became fully operational in 2010, after a seven-year construction phase, and reached a milestone in 2013 by the first observation of cosmic neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. This observation does not only mark an important breakthrough in neutrino astronomy, but it also provides a new probe of particle physics related to neutrino production, mixing, and interaction. In this review we give an overview of the various possibilities how IceCube can address fundamental questions related to the phenomena of neutrino oscillations and interactions, the origin of dark matter, and the existence of exotic relic particles, like monopoles. We will summarize recent results and highlight future avenues.Keywords IceCube · physics beyond the Standard Model · neutrino telescopes · neutrino oscillation · neutrino interactions · sterile neutrinos · dark matter · magnetic monopoles PACS 95.35.+d · 14.80.Hv · 13.15.+g · 14.60.Lm arXiv:1806.05696v1 [astro-ph.HE]

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Probing particle physics with IceCube

2018

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“…The lateral distribution of ∼TeV muons in IceCube is discussed in Ref. [24]. To achieve a seperation of, for example 135 m, a vertical muon with sufficient energy to reach IceCube (500 GeV) needs a transverse momentum of 6 GeV/c if it is produced at an altitude of 25 km, the typical interaction height for a heavy nucleus [25].…”

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Primary spectrum and composition with IceCube/IceTop

Gaisser

2016

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings

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IceCube, with its surface array IceTop, detects three different components of extensive air showers: the total signal at the surface, GeV muons in the periphery of the showers and TeV muons in the deep array of IceCube. The spectrum is measured with high resolution from the knee to the ankle with IceTop. Composition and spectrum are extracted from events seen in coincidence by the surface array and the deep array of IceCube. The muon lateral distribution at the surface is obtained from the data and used to provide a measurement of the muon density at 600 meters from the shower core up to 30 PeV. Results are compared to measurements from other experiments to obtain an overview of the spectrum and composition over an extended range of energy. Consistency of the surface muon measurements with hadronic interaction models and with measurements at higher energy is discussed.

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“…According to Refs. [95,96], IceCube's resolution for double tracks is about 150 m. Therefore, for the "Double tracks" traveling 1 km, as long as the cos θ 0.99, they can be separated. Moreover, the "Double tracks" would be a background for dimuon-type new physics searches [96][97][98].…”

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W -boson and trident production in TeV–PeV neutrino observatories

Zhou

Beacom

2020

Phys. Rev. D

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Detecting TeV-PeV cosmic neutrinos provides crucial tests of neutrino physics and astrophysics. The statistics of IceCube and the larger proposed IceCube-Gen2 demand calculations of neutrinonucleus interactions subdominant to deep-inelastic scattering, which is mediated by weak-boson couplings to nuclei. The largest such interactions are W -boson and trident production, which are mediated instead through photon couplings to nuclei. In a companion paper [1], we make the most comprehensive and precise calculations of those interactions at high energies. In this paper, we study their phenomenological consequences. We find that: (1) These interactions are dominated by the production of on-shell W -bosons, which carry most of the neutrino energy, (2) The cross section on water/iron can be as large as 7.5%/14% that of charged-current deep-inelastic scattering, much larger than the quoted uncertainty on the latter, (3) Attenuation in Earth is increased by as much as 15%, (4) W -boson production on nuclei exceeds that through the Glashow resonance on electrons by a factor of 20 for the best-fit IceCube spectrum, (5) The primary signals are showers that will significantly affect the detection rate in IceCube-Gen2; a small fraction of events give unique signatures that may be detected sooner.

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Lateral distribution of muons in IceCube cosmic ray events

Cited by 37 publications

References 29 publications

Probing particle physics with IceCube

Probing particle physics with IceCube

Primary spectrum and composition with IceCube/IceTop

W -boson and trident production in TeV–PeV neutrino observatories

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