PT Journal
AU KM3NeT Collaboration (Ageron, Mea
   Calvo, D
   Coleiro, A
   Colomer, M
   Gozzini, SR
   Hernandez-Rey, JJ
   Illuminati, G
   Khan Chowdhury, NR
   Manczak, J
   Real, D
   Thakore, T
   Zornoza, JD
   Zuñiga, J
TI Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2020
BP 99 - 11pp
VL 80
IS 2
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7629-z
LA English
AB 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.
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