A Simple Model of Muon Detection in the ANTARES Telescope and its Monte-Carlo-based Assessment

In this paper I present the work done in July 2008, after my first year of Physics, during a four-week internship at the Groupe de Recherche en Physique des Hautes Energies (High-Energy Physics Research Group) from the Universite de Haute-Alsace, France, within the ANTARES collaboration. The ANTARES telescope is a neutrino detector based on the detection of the Cerenkov light emitted by the track of muons crossing the three-dimensional array of photomultipliers. I present the simple model I implemented, and how I then checked its validity through a Monte-Carlo analysis and a comparison with real data from the telescope.