Atmospheric MUons from PArametric formulas: a fast GEnerator for neutrino telescopes (MUPAGE)

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dc.creatorCarminati, G.
dc.creatorMargiotta, A.
dc.creatorSpurio, M.
dc.date2008-02-05
dc.date2008-07-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:23:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:23:17Z
dc.descriptionNeutrino telescopes will open, in the next years, new opportunities in observational high energy astrophysics. For these experiments, atmospheric muons from primary cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere play an important role, because they provide the most abundant source of events for calibration and test. On the other side, they represent the major background source. In this paper a fast Monte Carlo generator (called MUPAGE) of bundles of atmospheric muons for underwater/ice neutrino telescopes is presented. MUPAGE is based on parametric formulas [APP25(2006)1] obtained from a full Monte Carlo simulation of cosmic ray showers generating muons in bundle, which are propagated down to 5 km w.e. It produces the event kinematics on the surface of a user-defined virtual cylinder, surrounding the detector. The multiplicity of the muons in the bundle, the muon spatial distribution and energy spectrum are simulated according to a specific model of primary cosmic ray flux, with constraints from measurements of the muon flux with underground experiments. As an example of the application, the result of the generation of events on a cylindrical surface of 3 km^2 at a depth of 2450 m of water is presented.
dc.description20 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0562
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0562
dc.identifierComput.Phys.Commun.179:915-923,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.cpc.2008.07.014
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/213935
dc.subjectInstrumentation and Detectors
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleAtmospheric MUons from PArametric formulas: a fast GEnerator for neutrino telescopes (MUPAGE)
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