MUPAGE: a fast atmospheric MUon GEnerator for neutrino telescopes based on PArametric formulas

Understand

Neutrino telescopes are opening new opportunities in observational high energy astrophysics.

• In these detectors, atmospheric muons from primary cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere play an important role.
• They provide the most abundant source of events for calibration and for testing the reconstruction algorithms.
• On the other hand, they represent the major background source.