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arXiv, 2021

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.09626

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021), 2021

DOI: 10.22323/1.395.0323

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Study of mass composition of cosmic rays with IceTop and IceCube

Journal article published in 2021 by V. Aswathi Balagopal, Rasha Abbasi, Markus Ackermann, Julia Becker Tjus ORCID, Jenni Adams, Juanan A. Aguilar, Paras Koundal, M. Ahlers, Maryon Ahrens, Cyril Martin Alispach, Najia Moureen Binte Amin, Antonio Augusto Alves Junior, Rui An, Karen Andeen, Tyler Anderson and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-component detector at the South Pole which detects high-energy particles emerging from astrophysical events. These particles provide us with insights into the fundamental properties and behaviour of their sources. Besides its principal usage and merits in neutrino astronomy, using IceCube in conjunction with its surface array, IceTop, also makes it a unique three-dimensional cosmic-ray detector. This distinctive feature helps facilitate detailed cosmic-ray analysis in the transition region from galactic to extragalactic sources. We will present the progress made on multiple fronts to establish a framework for mass-estimation of primary cosmic rays. The first technique relies on a likelihood-based analysis of the surface signal distribution and improves upon the standard reconstruction technique. The second uses advanced methods in graph neural networks to use the full in-ice shower footprint, in addition to global shower-footprint features from IceTop. A comparison between the two methods for composition analysis as well as a possible extension of the analysis techniques for sub-PeV cosmic-ray air-showers will also be discussed.