Muon ring images with an atmospheric Čerenkov telescope

✍ Scribed by G. Vacanti; P. Fleury; Y. Jiang; E. Paré; A.C. Rovero; X. Sarazin; M. Urban; T.C. Weekes

• Book ID: 103966359
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 636 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0927-6505
• DOI: 10.1016/0927-6505(94)90012-4

✦ Synopsis

High energy muons generated by air showers can be detected with atmospheric Cerenkov imaging telescopes via their ring signature. The distribution of (~erenkov light along the ring is a function only of the muon's distance of impact from the telescope: this property makes possible the calibration of the photon collection efficiency of imaging telescopes. We evaluate the acceptance of an imaging (~erenkov telescope to muons and discuss its application to the study of cosmic rays. We point out that muons may set a gamma-ray flux sensitivity limit for ground-based gamma-ray telescopes.