A Simulations Study of the Muon Response of the Iron Calorimeter Detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory

Understand

The magnetised Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL), proposed to be built at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), is designed to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations.

• The ICAL detector is optimized to measure the muon momentum, its direction and charge.
• A GEANT4-based package has been developed by the INO collaboration to simulate the ICAL geometry and propagation of particles through the detector.
• The simulated muon tracks are reconstructed using the Kalman Filter algorithm.