https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09237-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
The cosmic muon and detector simulation framework of the extreme energy events (EEE) experiment
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Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Rome), Italy
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA, USA
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
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INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
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Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
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Dipartimento di Scienze Applicate e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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ICSC World laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland
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INFN-CNAF, Bologna, Italy
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INFN Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
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CNR Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara”, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende (Cosenza), Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
Received:
16
October
2020
Accepted:
14
May
2021
Published online:
27
May
2021
This paper describes the simulation framework of the extreme energy events (EEE) experiment. EEE is a network of cosmic muon trackers, each made of three multi-gap resistive plate chambers (MRPC), able to precisely measure the absolute muon crossing time and the muon integrated angular flux at the ground level. The response of a single MRPC and the combination of three chambers have been implemented in a GEANT4-based framework (GEMC) to study the telescope response. The detector geometry, as well as details about the surrounding materials and the location of the telescopes have been included in the simulations in order to realistically reproduce the experimental set-up of each telescope. A model based on the latest parametrization of the cosmic muon flux has been used to generate single muon events. After validating the framework by comparing simulations to selected EEE telescope data, it has been used to determine detector parameters not accessible by analysing experimental data only, such as detection efficiency, angular and spatial resolution.
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