A Two-Component Lateral Distribution Function for the Reconstruction of Air-Shower Events in IceTop
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Publisher: name: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Year: 2023

description: The surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceTop, consists of an array of ice-Cherenkov tanks measuring the electromagnetic signal as well as low-energy (∼ GeV) muons from cosmic-ray air showers. In addition, accompanying high-energy (above a few 100 GeV) muons can be observed in coincidence in the deep in-ice detector. A combined measurement of the low- and high-energy muon content is of particular interest for tests of hadronic interaction models as well as for cosmic-ray mass discrimination. However, since IceTop does not feature dedicated muon detectors, an estimation of the low-energy muon component of individual air showers is challenging. In this work, a two-component lateral distribution function (LDF), using separate descriptions for the electromagnetic and muon lateral distributions of the detector signals, is introduced as a new approach for the estimation of low-energy muons in air showers on an event-by-event basis. The principle of the air-shower reconstruction using the two-component LDF, as well as its reconstruction performance with respect to primary energy and number of low-energy muons will be discussed.