First All-Sky Measurement of Muon Flux with IceCube

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21347414r&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #474.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.430

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The IceCube Neutrino detector, under construction at the South Pole, is a cubic kilometer telescope buried between 1.5 km and 2.5 km of ice. IceCube's unique combination of strategic placement, substantial size, and high angular resolution makes it sensitive enough to allow measurement of the atmospheric muon spectrum up to the PeV range for the first time. A series of cuts is applied to data from 22 strings of IceCube (IC22)to ensure improved angular resolution for the zenith angle. The IC-22 data is then compared to Monte Carlo atmospheric muon and neutrino data. The all-sky muon flux measurement acts as a calibration tool for IceCube and is also beneficial in a wide range of physical and astrophysical topics. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation's REU program and the Department of Defense's ASSURE program through NSF Award AST-0453442.

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