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Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units: The KM3NeT Collaboration

  • M. Ageron
  • , S. Aiello
  • , F. Ameli
  • , M. Andre
  • , G. Androulakis
  • , M. Anghinolfi
  • , G. Anton
  • , M. Ardid
  • , J. Aublin
  • , C. Bagatelas
  • , G. Barbarino
  • , B. Baret
  • , S. Basegmez du Pree
  • , A. Belias
  • , E. Berbee
  • , A. M. van den Berg
  • , V. Bertin
  • , V. van Beveren
  • , S. Biagi
  • , A. Biagioni
  • S. Bianucci, M. Billault, M. Bissinger, R. de Boer, J. Boumaaza, S. Bourret, M. Bouta, M. Bouwhuis, C. Bozza, H. Brânzaş, M. Briel, M. Bruchner, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, E. Buis, R. Buompane, J. Busto, G. Cacopardo, L. Caillat, C. Calì, D. Calvo, A. Capone, S. Celli, M. Chabab, N. Chau, S. Cherubini, V. Chiarella, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, R. Cocimano, J. A.B. Coelho, A. Coleiro, M. Colomer Molla, S. Colonges, R. Coniglione, A. Cosquer, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, G. Cuttone, C. D’Amato, A. D’Amico, A. D’Onofrio, R. Dallier, M. De Palma, C. De Sio, I. Di Palma, A. F. Díaz, D. Diego-Tortosa, C. Distefano, A. Domi, R. Donà, C. Donzaud, L. van Dooren, D. Dornic, M. Dörr, M. Durocher, T. Eberl, T. van Eeden, I. El Bojaddaini, H. Eljarrari, D. Elsaesser, A. Enzenhöfer, P. Fermani, G. Ferrara, M. D. Filipović, L. A. Fusco, D. Gajanana, T. Gal, A. Garcia Soto, F. Garufi, L. Gialanella, E. Giorgio, A. Giuliante, S. R. Gozzini, R. Gracia, K. Graf, D. Grasso, T. Grégoire, G. Grella, A. Grimaldi, A. Grmek, D. Guderian, M. Guerzoni, C. Guidi, S. Hallmann, H. Hamdaoui, H. van Haren, A. Heijboer, A. Hekalo, S. Henry, J. J. Hernández-Rey, J. Hofestädt, F. Huang, E. Huesca Santiago, G. Illuminati, C. W. James, P. Jansweijer, M. Jongen, M. de Jong, P. de Jong, M. Kadler, P. Kalaczyński, O. Kalekin, U. F. Katz, F. Kayzel, P. Keller, N. R.Khan Chowdhury, F. van der Knaap, E. N. Koffeman, P. Kooijman, J. Koopstra, A. Kouchner, M. Kreter, V. Kulikovskiy, K. K. Meghna, R. Lahmann, P. Lamare, G. Larosa, J. Laurence, R. Le Breton, F. Leone, E. Leonora, G. Levi, F. Librizzi, M. Lincetto, P. Litrico, C. D.Llorens Alvarez, A. Lonardo, F. Longhitano, D. Lopez-Coto, G. Maggi, J. Mańczak, K. Mannheim, A. Margiotta, A. Marinelli, C. Markou, L. Martin, J. A. Martínez-Mora, A. Martini, F. Marzaioli, R. Mele, K. W. Melis, P. Migliozzi, E. Migneco, P. Mijakowski, L. S. Miranda, C. M. Mollo, M. Mongelli, M. Morganti, M. Moser, A. Moussa, R. Muller, P. Musico, M. Musumeci, L. Nauta, S. Navas, C. A. Nicolau, C. Nielsen, B. Ó Fearraigh, M. Organokov, A. Orlando, V. Panagopoulos, G. Pancaldi, G. Papalashvili, R. Papaleo, C. Pastore, G. E. Păvălaş, G. Pellegrini, C. Pellegrino, M. Perrin-Terrin, P. Piattelli, K. Pikounis, O. Pisanti, C. Poirè, G. Polydefki, V. Popa, M. Post, T. Pradier, G. Pühlhofer, S. Pulvirenti, L. Quinn, F. Raffaelli, N. Randazzo, A. Rapicavoli, S. Razzaque, D. Real, S. Reck, J. Reubelt, G. Riccobene, L. Rigalleau, G. Rizza, R. Rocco, A. Rovelli, J. Royon, M. Salemi, I. Salvadori, D. F.E. Samtleben, A. Sánchez Losa, M. Sanguineti, A. Santangelo, D. Santonocito, P. Sapienza, J. Schmelling, V. Sciacca, D. Sciliberto, J. Seneca, I. Sgura, R. Shanidze, A. Sharma, F. Simeone, A. Sinopoulou, B. Spisso, M. Spurio, D. Stavropoulos, J. Steijger, S. M. Stellacci, B. Strandberg, D. Stransky, T. Stüven, M. Taiuti, Y. Tayalati, E. Tenllado, D. Tézier, T. Thakore, S. Theraube, P. Timmer, S. Tingay, A. Trovato, S. Tsagkli, E. Tzamariudaki, D. Tzanetatos, C. Valieri, V. Van Elewyck, F. Versari, S. Viola, D. Vivolo, G. de Wasseige, J. Wilms, R. Wojaczyński, E. de Wolf, D. Zaborov, A. Zegarelli, J. D. Zornoza, J. Zúñiga
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Polytechnic University of Catalonia
  • Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Polytechnic University of Valencia
  • Université Paris Cité
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • University of Groningen
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Mohamed I University
  • University of Salerno
  • Institute for Space Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
  • University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
  • IFIC (CSIC-Universitat de València)
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • University of Catania
  • IN2P3 - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique Des Particules
  • University of Bari
  • University of Granada
  • University of Genoa
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Würzburg
  • Western Sydney University
  • University of Pisa
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • University of Münster
  • Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research - NIOZ
  • Curtin University
  • National Centre for Nuclear Research
  • Utrecht University
  • Institut universitaire de France
  • University of Johannesburg
  • Accademia Navale di Livorno
  • Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
  • University of Tübingen
  • Leiden University

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Abstract

KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV–PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232–3386 m seawater depth is obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Article number99
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume80
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering (miscellaneous)
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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