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Unfolding the Atmospheric Muon Flux with IceCube: Investigating Stopping Muons and High-Energy Prompt Contributions

17 Jul 2025, 15:50
15m
CICG - International Conference Centre - Geneva, Switzerland

CICG - International Conference Centre - Geneva, Switzerland

17 rue de Varembé CH - 1211 Geneva Switzerland
Talk Cosmic-Ray Indirect CRI

Speaker

Pascal Gutjahr (TU Dortmund University)

Description

Atmospheric muons produced in cosmic-ray air showers are classified as conventional muons from pion and kaon decays and prompt muons from heavy hadron decays. Conventional muons dominate at lower energies, and the prompt component becomes more significant at PeV energies and above. Precisely measuring the atmospheric muon flux from a few GeV to several PeV is valuable for advancing our understanding of cosmic-ray interactions and testing hadronic interaction models. Low-energy muons that stop within the IceCube in-ice array provide valuable information about the energy spectrum of muons from a few 100 GeV up to 10 TeV.
Machine learning techniques are employed to enhance event reconstruction and selection to provide insights into the conventional and prompt components. This contribution presents the unfolding of the energy spectrum of stopping muons in IceCube as well as the unfolding of high-energy muons to probe the prompt component.

Collaboration(s) IceCube

Author

Pascal Gutjahr (TU Dortmund University)

Co-author

Lucas Witthaus (TU Dortmund University)

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