Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units
Creators: name: KM3NeT Collaboration
name: Ageron, M.
name: Aiello, S.
name: Ameli, F.
name: Andre, M.
name: Androulakis, G.
name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Anton, G.
name: Ardid, M.
name: Aublin, J.
name: Bagatelas, C.
name: Barbarino, G.
name: Baret, B.
name: Pree, S. Basegmez du
name: Belias, A.
name: Berbee, E.
name: Berg, A. M. van den
name: Bertin, V.
name: van Beveren, V.
name: Biagi, S.
name: Biagioni, A.
name: Bianucci, S.
name: Billault, M.
name: Bissinger, M.
name: de Boer, R.
name: Boumaaza, J.
name: Bourret, S.
name: Bouta, M.
name: Bouwhuis, M.
name: Bozza, C.
name: Brânzaş, H.
name: Briel, M.
name: Bruchner, M.
name: Bruijn, R.
name: Brunner, J.
name: Buis, E.
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name: Busto, J.
name: Cacopardo, G.
name: Caillat, L.
name: Calì, C.
name: Calvo, D.
name: Capone, A.
name: Celli, S.
name: Chabab, M.
name: Chau, N.
name: Cherubini, S.
name: Chiarella, V.
name: Chiarusi, T.
name: Circella, M.
name: Cocimano, R.
name: Coelho, J. A. B.
name: Coleiro, A.
name: Molla, M. Colomer
name: Colonges, S.
name: Coniglione, R.
name: Cosquer, A.
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name: D'Amato, C.
name: D'Amico, A.
name: D'Onofrio, A.
name: Dallier, R.
name: De Palma, M.
name: De Sio, C.
name: Di Palma, I.
name: Díaz, A. F.
name: Diego-Tortosa, D.
name: Distefano, C.
name: Domi, A.
name: Donà, R.
name: Donzaud, C.
name: van Dooren, L.
name: Dornic, D.
name: Dörr, M.
name: Durocher, M.
name: Eberl, T.
name: van Eeden, T.
name: Bojaddaini, I. El
name: Eljarrari, H.
name: Elsaesser, D.
name: Enzenhöfer, A.
name: Fermani, P.
name: Ferrara, G.
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: Fusco, L. A.
name: Gajanana, D.
name: Gal, T.
name: Soto, A. Garcia
name: Garufi, F.
name: Gialanella, L.
name: Giorgio, E.
name: Giuliante, A.
name: Gozzini, S. R.
name: Gracia, R.
name: Graf, K.
name: Grasso, D.
name: Grégoire, T.
name: Grella, G.
name: Grimaldi, A.
name: Grmek, A.
name: Guderian, D.
name: Guerzoni, M.
name: Guidi, C.
name: Hallmann, S.
name: Hamdaoui, H.
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name: Hernández-Rey, J. J.
name: Hofestädt, J.
name: Huang, F.
name: Santiago, E. Huesca
name: Illuminati, G.
name: James, C. W.
name: Jansweijer, P.
name: Jongen, M.
name: de Jong, M.
name: de Jong, P.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Kalaczyński, P.
name: Kalekin, O.
name: Katz, U. F.
name: Kayzel, F.
name: Keller, P.
name: Chowdhury, N. R. Khan
name: van der Knaap, F.
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name: Kooijman, P.
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name: Musico, P.
name: Musumeci, M.
name: Nauta, L.
name: Navas, S.
name: Nicolau, C. A.
name: Nielsen, C.
name: Fearraigh, B. Ó
name: Organokov, M.
name: Orlando, A.
name: Panagopoulos, V.
name: Pancaldi, G.
name: Papalashvili, G.
name: Papaleo, R.
name: Pastore, C.
name: Păvălaş, G. E.
name: Pellegrini, G.
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name: Piattelli, P.
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name: Post, M.
name: Pradier, T.
name: Pühlhofer, G.
name: Pulvirenti, S.
name: Quinn, L.
name: Raffaelli, F.
name: Randazzo, N.
name: Rapicavoli, A.
name: Razzaque, S.
name: Real, D.
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name: Rocco, R.
name: Rovelli, A.
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name: Salemi, M.
name: Salvadori, I.
name: Samtleben, D. F. E.
name: Losa, A. Sánchez
name: Sanguineti, M.
name: Santangelo, A.
name: Santonocito, D.
name: Sapienza, P.
name: Schmelling, J.
name: Sciacca, V.
name: Sciliberto, D.
name: Seneca, J.
name: Sgura, I.
name: Shanidze, R.
name: Sharma, A.
name: Simeone, F.
name: Sinopoulou, A.
name: Spisso, B.
name: Spurio, M.
name: Stavropoulos, D.
name: Steijger, J.
name: Stellacci, S. M.
name: Strandberg, B.
name: Stransky, D.
name: Stüven, T.
name: Taiuti, M.
name: Tayalati, Y.
name: Tenllado, E.
name: Tézier, D.
name: Thakore, T.
name: Theraube, S.
name: Timmer, P.
name: Tingay, S.
name: Trovato, A.
name: Tsagkli, S.
name: Tzamariudaki, E.
name: Tzanetatos, D.
name: Valieri, C.
name: Van Elewyck, V.
name: Versari, F.
name: Viola, S.
name: Vivolo, D.
name: de Wasseige, G.
name: Wilms, J.
name: Wojaczyński, R.
name: de Wolf, E.
name: Zaborov, D.
name: Zegarelli, A.
name: Zornoza, J. D.
name: Zúñiga, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures