Calibration of VERITAS Telescope 1 via Muons

Details Calibration of VERITAS Telescope 1 via Muons Calibration of VERITAS Telescope 1 via Muons

2005-07-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507449v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, Pune

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Cherenkov light from cosmic-ray muons is a significant source of background for the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. However, muon events are also valuable as a diagnostic tool because they produce distinctive ring images, and the expected amount of Cherenkov light per unit arclength can be accurately calculated. We report on a comparison of real and simulated muon events in VERITAS Telescope 1, using this comparison to validate the detector model and to determine the light collection efficiency of the telescope.

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