Philipp Hoffmann

Muon Multiplicities in IceCube(pdf)

Usually, cosmic ray showers contain not just one muon, but a bundle of multiple muons. In the past detectors like LVD have been used to characterize such bundles and estimate their number of muons. Compared to LVD, IceCube collects events at a higher rate and enables probing of higher energies, but it has not been used for an in depth look at muon bundles yet, mainly because it is less densely instrumented than detectors like LVD. In this talk I will give an introduction to muon bundles. Effects of the detector configuration of IceCube on the measurement and estimation of muon multiplicities will be highlighted together with the differences between IceCube and other cosmic ray experiments. I will also explain the interplay of a cosmic ray event's different observables with its muon multiplicity and what other observables can be measured by estimating the muon multiplicity.