Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units
M. Ageron, S. Aiello, F. Ameli, M. André, G. Androulakis, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, M. Ardid, J. Aublin, C. Bagatelas, G. C. Barbarino, B. Baret, S. Başeğmez du Pree, A. Belias, E. Berbee, A. M. van den Berg, V. Bertín, Vincent van Beveren, S. Biagi, A. Biagioni, S. Bianucci, M. Billault, M. Bissinger, Rizaldi Boer, J. Boumaaza, S. Bourret, M. Bouta, M.C. Bouwhuis, C. Bozza, H. Brânzaş, Max M. Briel, Marc Bruchner, R. Bruijn, J. Brünner, E. Buis, R. Buompane, J. Busto, G. Cacopardo, L. Caillat, Corrado Calì, D. Calvo, A. Capone, S. Celli, M. Chabab, Thien Nhan Chau, S. Cherubini, V. Chiarella, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, R. Cocimano, J. A. B. Coelho, A. Coleiro, Marta Colomer Molla, S. Colonges, R. Coniglione, A. Cosquer, P. Coyle, A. Creusot, G. Cuttone, C. D’Amato, Antonio D’Amico, Antonio D’Onofrio, R. Dallier, M. De Palma, Chiara De Sio, I. Di Palma, A. F. Díaz, D. Diego-Tortosa, C. Distefano, Alba Domi, R. Donà, C. Donzaud, L. van Dooren, D. Dornic, M. Dörr, M. Durocher, T. Eberl, Thijs van Eeden, I. El Bojaddaini, Hassnae Eljarrari, D. Elsäesser, A. Enzenhöfer, P. Fermani, G. Ferrara, M. D. Filipović, L. Fusco, D. Gajanana, T. Gal, A. Garcia Soto, F. Garufi, L. Gialanella, E. Giorgio, A. Giuliante, Sara Rebecca Gozzini, R. Gracía, K. Graf, Dario Grasso, T. Grégoire, G. Grella, A. Grimaldi
Abstract
Abstract KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collaboration aims at identifying and studying TeV–PeV astrophysical neutrino sources. With the other detector (ORCA), the neutrino mass ordering will be determined by studying GeV-scale atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The first KM3NeT detection units were deployed at the Italian and French sites between 2015 and 2017. In this paper, a description of the detector is presented, together with a summary of the procedures used to calibrate the detector in-situ. Finally, the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux between 2232–3386 m seawater depth is obtained.