Energy calibration of large underwater detectors using stopping muons
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We propose to use stopping cosmic-ray muons in the energy calibration of planned and deployed large underwater detectors. The method is based on the proportionality between the incident muon energy and the length of the muon path before it stops. Simultaneous measurements of the muon path and the amplitude of the signal from the photomultiplier tubes allow a relation between the energy deposited in the sensitive volume of the detector and the observed signal to be derived, and also provide a test of detector simulations. We describe the proposed method and present the results of simulations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0010056,
title = {Energy calibration of large underwater detectors using stopping muons},
author = {V. A. Kudryavtsev and R. A. Brook and S. L. Cartwright and J. E. McMillan and N. J. C. Spooner and L. F. Thompson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0010056},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Lett. B