HAWC观测站中微子搜寻的本底表征
高能物理 - 实验
2022-01-10 v2 天体物理仪器与方法
摘要
HAWC观测站靠近墨西哥最大火山的位置，使得搜寻中微子诱导的水平缪子和陶带电轻子成为可能。位于地平线处的火山截面达到大于8 km岩石的斜深，使其成为宇宙线水平本底的优良屏蔽体。我们报告了为利用HAWC探测掠地中微子所开发的搜寻方法与本底抑制技术，以及一个描述由散射缪子产生的剩余本底的模型。我们表明，通过提高探测能量阈值，我们可以利用HAWC搜寻中微子诱导的带电轻子。
引用
@article{arxiv.2108.07767,
title = {Characterization of the background for a neutrino search with the HAWC observatory},
author = {HAWC Collaboration and A. Albert and R. Alfaro and C. Alvarez and J. R. Angeles Camacho and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and K. P. Arunbabu and E. Belmont-Moreno and K. S. Caballero-Mora and T. Capistrán and A. Carramiñana and S. Casanova and U. Cotti and J. Cotzomi and S. Coutiño de León and E. De la Fuente and R. Diaz Hernandez and M. A. DuVernois and M. Durocher and C. Espinoza and K. L. Fan and N. Fraija and D. Garcia and J. A. García-González and F. Garfias and M. M. González and J. A. Goodman and D. Huang and F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla and P. Hüntemeyer and A. Iriarte and A. Jardin-Blicq and D. Kieda and A. Lara and W. H. Lee and H. León Vargas and A. L. Longinotti and G. Luis-Raya and K. Malone and J. Martínez-Castro and J. A. Matthews and P. Miranda-Romagnoli and J. A. Morales-Soto and E. Moreno and A. Nayerhoda and L. Nellen and R. Noriega-Papaqui and N. Omodei and A. Peisker and E. G. Pérez-Pérez and C. D. Rho and D. Rosa-González and A. Sandoval and J. Serna-Franco and R. W. Springer and K. Tollefson and I. Torres and R. Torres-Escobedo and F. Ureña-Mena and L. Villaseñor and H. Zhou and C. de León},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07767},
year = {2022}
}
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