TY  - JOUR
AU  - ANTARES Collaboration (Aguilar, J. A. et al
AU  - Bigongiari, C.
AU  - Emanuele, U.
AU  - Gomez-Gonzalez, J. P.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Mangano, S.
AU  - Salesa, F.
AU  - Toscano, S.
AU  - Yepes, H.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010//
TI  - Measurement of the atmospheric muon flux with a 4 GeV threshold in the ANTARES neutrino telescope
T2  - Astropart Phys.
JO  - Astroparticle Physics
SP  - 86
EP  - 90
VL  - 33
IS  - 2
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
KW  - Atmospheric muons
KW  - Depth intensity relation
KW  - Potassium-40
AB  - A new method for the measurement of the muon flux in the deep-sea ANTARES neutrino telescope and its dependence on the depth is presented. The method is based oil the observation of coincidence signals in adjacent storeys of the detector. This yields an energy threshold of about 4 GeV. The main sources of optical background are the decay of K-40 and the bioluminescence in the sea water. The K-40 background is used to calibrate the efficiency of the photo-multiplier tubes.
SN  - 0927-6505
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4843
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.12.002
DO  - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.12.002
LA  - English
N1  - ISI:000275514800004
ID  - ANTARESCollaborationAguilar_etal2010
ER  -