Muon track reconstruction and data selection techniques in AMANDA

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Muon track reconstruction and data selection techniques in AMANDA

P. B. Price T. O. B. Schmidt C. Pérez De Los Heros T. Becka M. Kestel Kurt Woschnagg T. Deyoung Dmitry Chirkin Staffan Carius D. Steele S. Böser Jodi Cooley Matthias Leuthold Elisa Bernardini D. R. Nygren R. Ganugapati P. Herquet D. F. Cowen Marek Kowalski P. Steffen M. Solarz Jan Conrad T. Feser S. Richter I. Taboada T. Castermans H. S. Matis K. Rawlins M. Hellwig P. Miocinovic Yajun Wang H. G. Sander Francis Halzen Michael Stamatikos S. Schlenstedt C. P. Mcparland R. Hardtke Markus Gaug B. Collin D. J. Boersma James Madsen C. Wiedemann A. Goldschmidt I. Liubarsky David A. Schneider A. Silvestri J. P Dewulf G. C. Hill R. G. Stokstad C. H. Wiebusch Hakki ÖGelman R. Wischnewski P. Lindahl Christian Spiering Y. Minaeva R. C. Bay K.-h. Becker M. Ribordy K. Helbing Heiko Geenen R. Nahnhauer J. Rodríguez Martino K. Kuehn K. Schinarakis T. Burgess Othmane Bouhali T. Messarius R. Morse L. Gerhardt J. Ahrens Ph. Olbrechts K. Münich K. Hultqvist T. Neunhöffer Albrecht Karle A. Biron Glenn Spiczak Xinhua Bai J. W. Nam L. Thollander B. Hughey H. Leich S. Tilav P. C. Mock R. Schwarz Kael Hanson Paolo Desiati R. Porrata A. C. Pohl Gerald Przybylski K. H. Sulanke Olga Botner D. Bertrand C. De Clercq S. W. Barwick C. Walck Thomas K. Gaisser G. B. Yodh Torsten Harenberg Elisa Resconi J. K. Becker T. Hauschildt Adam Bouchta Allan Hallgren Ole Streicher S. Hundertmark J. I. Lamoureux P. Niessen D. Hubert Axel Groß L. Köpke D. Ross Pawel Marciniewski Anna Davour Janet Jacobsen Wolfgang Wagner P. O. Hulth H. Wissing Wolfgang Rhode P. Ekström

subject

Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array Physics AMANDA Nuclear and High Energy Physics Particle physics AMANDA; Neutrino astrophysics; Neutrino telescope; Track reconstruction Muon Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics (astro-ph)Detector FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics Neutrino telescope Track reconstruction Neutrino astrophysics IceCube Neutrino Observatory Neutrino detector High Energy Physics::Experiment Muon neutrino Neutrino Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)Instrumentation Lepton

description

The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a high-energy neutrino telescope operating at the geographic South Pole. It is a lattice of photo-multiplier tubes buried deep in the polar ice between 1500m and 2000m. The primary goal of this detector is to discover astrophysical sources of high energy neutrinos. A high-energy muon neutrino coming through the earth from the Northern Hemisphere can be identified by the secondary muon moving upward through the detector. The muon tracks are reconstructed with a maximum likelihood method. It models the arrival times and amplitudes of Cherenkov photons registered by the photo-multipliers. This paper describes the different methods of reconstruction, which have been successfully implemented within AMANDA. Strategies for optimizing the reconstruction performance and rejecting background are presented. For a typical analysis procedure the direction of tracks are reconstructed with about 2 degree accuracy.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2004-07-02	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2004.01.065