Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC

Blake, A. and Devitt, D. and Lister, A. and Nowak, J. and Thorpe, Chris (2021) Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Rate with the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC. Journal of Instrumentation, 16: P04004. ISSN 1748-0221

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Abstract

MicroBooNE is a near-surface liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) located at Fermilab. We measure the characterisation of muons originating from cosmic interactions in the atmosphere using both the charge collection and light readout detectors. The data is compared with the CORSIKA cosmic-ray simulation. Good agreement is found between the observation, simulation and previous results. Furthermore, the angular resolution of the reconstructed muons inside the TPC is studied in simulation.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Instrumentation

Additional Information:

This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published in Journal of Instrumentation. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/04/P04004

Uncontrolled Keywords:

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Subjects:

?? physics.ins-dethep-exinstrumentationmathematical physics ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

152282

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

03 Mar 2021 12:01

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

17 Feb 2024 01:02

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/152282