A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors
IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. The main goal of IceCube is the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the identification of their sources. High-energy muon neutrinos are observed via the secondary muons produced in charge current interactions with nuc...
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ftuloxford:oai:ora.ox.ac.uk:uuid:1a8452d4-7e7a-49d0-a72c-8e3271b06bed 2024-10-06T13:52:51+00:00 A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Alves, AA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal V., A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, KH Becker Tjus, J Bellenghi, C Benzvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Borowka, J Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Sarkar, S 2021-09-30 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08034 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a8452d4-7e7a-49d0-a72c-8e3271b06bed eng eng IOP Science doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08034 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a8452d4-7e7a-49d0-a72c-8e3271b06bed https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08034 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC Attribution (CC BY) Journal article 2021 ftuloxford https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08034 2024-09-06T07:47:28Z IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. The main goal of IceCube is the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the identification of their sources. High-energy muon neutrinos are observed via the secondary muons produced in charge current interactions with nuclei in the ice. Currently, the best performing muon track directional reconstruction is based on a maximum likelihood method using the arrival time distribution of Cherenkov photons registered by the experiment's photomultipliers. A known systematic shortcoming of the prevailing method is to assume a continuous energy loss along the muon track. However at energies >1 TeV the light yield from muons is dominated by stochastic showers. This paper discusses a generalized ansatz where the expected arrival time distribution is parametrized by a stochastic muon energy loss pattern. This more realistic parametrization of the loss profile leads to an improvement of the muon angular resolution of up to 20% for through-going tracks and up to a factor 2 for starting tracks over existing algorithms. Additionally, the procedure to estimate the directional reconstruction uncertainty has been improved to be more robust against numerical errors. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole ORA - Oxford University Research Archive South Pole Journal of Instrumentation 16 08 P08034 |
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IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. The main goal of IceCube is the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the identification of their sources. High-energy muon neutrinos are observed via the secondary muons produced in charge current interactions with nuclei in the ice. Currently, the best performing muon track directional reconstruction is based on a maximum likelihood method using the arrival time distribution of Cherenkov photons registered by the experiment's photomultipliers. A known systematic shortcoming of the prevailing method is to assume a continuous energy loss along the muon track. However at energies >1 TeV the light yield from muons is dominated by stochastic showers. This paper discusses a generalized ansatz where the expected arrival time distribution is parametrized by a stochastic muon energy loss pattern. This more realistic parametrization of the loss profile leads to an improvement of the muon angular resolution of up to 20% for through-going tracks and up to a factor 2 for starting tracks over existing algorithms. Additionally, the procedure to estimate the directional reconstruction uncertainty has been improved to be more robust against numerical errors. |
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Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Alves, AA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal V., A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, KH Becker Tjus, J Bellenghi, C Benzvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Borowka, J Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Sarkar, S |
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Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Alves, AA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal V., A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, KH Becker Tjus, J Bellenghi, C Benzvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Borowka, J Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Sarkar, S A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors |
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Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Alves, AA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Argüelles, C Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal V., A Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, KH Becker Tjus, J Bellenghi, C Benzvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Borowka, J Böser, S Botner, O Böttcher, J Bourbeau, E Bourbeau, J Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Sarkar, S |
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A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors |
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A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors |
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A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors |
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A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors |
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A muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale Cherenkov detectors |
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muon-track reconstruction exploiting stochastic losses for large-scale cherenkov detectors |
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