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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | An improved method for measuring muon energy using the truncated mean of dE/dx |
Author: | Abbasi, R. Hill, G. |
Citation: | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 2013; 703:190-198 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science BV |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0168-9002 1872-9576 |
Statement of Responsibility: | R. Abbasi ... G.C.Hill ... et al. |
Abstract: | The measurement of muon energy is critical for many analyses in large Cherenkov detectors, particularly those that involve separating extraterrestrial neutrinos from the atmospheric neutrino background. Muon energy has traditionally been determined by measuring the specific energy loss (dE/dx) along the muon's path and relating the dE/dx to the muon energy. Because high-energy muons (Eμ>1TeV) lose energy randomly, the spread in dE/dx values is quite large, leading to a typical energy resolution of 0.29 in log10(Eμ) for a muon observed over a 1 km path length in the IceCube detector. In this paper, we present an improved method that uses a truncated mean and other techniques to determine the muon energy. The muon track is divided into separate segments with individual dE/dx values. The elimination of segments with the highest dE/dx results in an overall dE/dx that is more closely correlated to the muon energy. This method results in an energy resolution of 0.22 in log10(Eμ), which gives a 26% improvement. This technique is applicable to any large water or ice detector and potentially to large scintillator or liquid argon detectors. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. |
Keywords: | Muon energy dE/dx Neutrino energy Truncated mean Cherenkov IceCube detector |
Rights: | Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.081 |
Grant ID: | ARC |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.11.081 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Chemistry and Physics publications |
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