TY  - JOUR
AU  - ANTARES Collaboration (Aguilar, J. A. et al
AU  - Bigongiari, C.
AU  - Dornic, D.
AU  - Emanuele, U.
AU  - Gomez-Gonzalez, J. P.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Mangano, S.
AU  - Ruiz-Rivas, J.
AU  - Salesa, F.
AU  - Sanchez-Losa, A.
AU  - Toscano, S.
AU  - Yepes, H.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - A method for detection of muon induced electromagnetic showers with the ANTARES detector
T2  - Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A
JO  - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A
SP  - 56
EP  - 62
VL  - 675
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
KW  - Neutrino telescope
KW  - Electromagnetic shower identification
KW  - High energy muons
KW  - Energy reconstruction
AB  - The primary aim of ANTARES is neutrino astronomy with upward going muons created in charged current muon neutrino interactions in the detector and its surroundings. Downward going muons are background for neutrino searches. These muons are the decay products of cosmic-ray collisions in the Earth's atmosphere far above the detector. This paper presents a method to identify and count electromagnetic showers induced along atmospheric muon tracks with the ANTARES detector. The method is applied to both cosmic muon data and simulations and its applicability to the reconstruction of muon event energies is demonstrated.
SN  - 0168-9002
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0426
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.01.060
DO  - 10.1016/j.nima.2012.01.060
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000302973600011
ID  - ANTARESCollaborationAguilar_etal2012
ER  -