INVESTIGADORES
MARIAZZI Analisa Gabriela
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Missing energy estimate in the light of the muon discrepancy
Autor/es:
M. TUEROS FOR THE PIERRE AUGER COLLABORATION (J. ABRAHAM, ... , A. MARIAZZI, ET AL)
Lugar:
Ginebra
Reunión:
Simposio; International Symposium on Future Directions in Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics; 2012
Institución organizadora:
CERN
Resumen:
The determination of the primary energy of extensive air showers using the
fluorescence technique requires an estimation of the energy carried away by the particles
that do not deposit all their energy in the atmosphere. This estimation is typically made
using Monte Carlo simulations and thus depends on the model predictions for neutrino
and muon production. In this contribution we describe a new method that could be used
to obtain the missing energy directly from events measured simultaneously with the fluo-
rescence and the surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory, based on a toy model
of the shower cascade. The method is applied to a synthetic sample of events to show its
robustness and we discuss how the results could be used to make an estimation of the
number of high energy muons in the cascade.
