Angular and energy resolution of the DUMAND optical array
In an initial simulation of the response of the DUMAND optical array to the Cerenkov light from multi-TeV muons and hadronic cascades we find a muon angular resolution which is better than 15 mr above 10 TeV. The muon energy resolution is 60% at 5 TeV but improves to 45% and is approximately energy-independent above 10 TeV. The energy resolution of the hadronic cascade is given by delta E/sub H/ = 2.3 + .3E/sub H/ TeV. With these errors we can detect the presence of the W-boson propagator in deeply inelastic interactions induced by atmospheric neutrinos above 10 TeV in a few month's running with the currently conceived 1 km/sup 3/ array. Point sources of extraterrestrial neutrinos above a few TeV can be located to a fraction of 10/sup -5/ of the celestial sphere. Multiple muon events induced in the upper atmosphere by primary cosmic rays can be studied with the possibility of measuring the invariant mass of any supermassive objects decaying into two muons.
- Research Organization:
- Hawaii Univ., Honolulu (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76ER00511
- OSTI ID:
- 6505380
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/00511-T1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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