MUons from PArametric formulas: A fast GEnerator of atmospheric -bundles for neutrino telescopes (MUPAGE)

✍ Scribed by G. Carminati; A. Margiotta; M. Spurio

• Book ID: 103857357
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Volume: 602
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.12.026

✦ Synopsis

Atmospheric muons play an important role for neutrino telescopes, because they provide the most abundant source of events for real time monitoring, calibration and tests. On the other side, they also represent the major background source.

A fast Monte Carlo generator (called MUPAGE) of atmospheric muon bundles for underwater/ice neutrino telescopes is presented here. MUPAGE is based on parametric formulas [Y.