Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA
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 o...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:1374988 2023-05-15T14:02:04+02:00 Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA Collaboration, TAMANDA Ahrens, J 2004-07-02 http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1374988/ unknown Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A , 524 169 - 194. (2004) astro-ph astro-ph.IM Article 2004 ftucl 2015-02-12T23:20:18Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole University College London: UCL Discovery Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic |
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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. |
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Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA |
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Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA |
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Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA |
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Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA |
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Muon Track Reconstruction and Data Selection Techniques in AMANDA |
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muon track reconstruction and data selection techniques in amanda |
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Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic |
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Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic |
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Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole |
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