Muon track reconstruction and data selection techniques in AMANDA

被引：194

作者：

Ahrens, J

Bai, X

Bay, R

Barwick, SW

Becka, T

Becker, JK

Becker, KH

Bernardini, E

Bertrand, D

Biron, A

Boersma, DJ

Böser, S

Botner, O

Bouchta, A

Bouhali, O

Burgess, T

Carius, S

Castermans, T

Chirkin, D

Collin, B

Conrad, J

Cooley, J

Cowen, DF

Davour, A

De Clercq, C

DeYoung, T

Desitati, P

Dewulf, JP

Ekström, P

Feser, T

Gaug, M

Gaisser, TK

Ganugapati, R

Geenen, H

Gerhardt, L

Gross, A

Goldschmidt, A

Hallgren, A

Halzen, F

Hanson, K

Hardtke, R

Harenberg, T

Hauschildt, T

Helbing, K

Hellwig, M

Herquet, P

Hill, GC

Hubert, D

Hughey, B

Hulth, PO

机构：

[1] BU Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys 8, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

[2] Univ Uppsala, Div High Energy Phys, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden

[3] Free Univ Brussels, Fac Sci, Brussels, Belgium

[4] DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany

[5] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Bartol Res Inst, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[7] Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

[8] Univ Simon Bolivar, Dept Fis, Caracas 1080, Venezuela

[9] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA

[10] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, London SW7 2BW, England

[11] Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[12] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[13] Free Univ Brussels, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[14] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[15] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[16] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

[17] Kalmar Univ, Dept Technol, S-39182 Kalmar, Sweden

[18] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

来源：

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | 2004年 / 524卷 / 1-3期

关键词：

AMANDA; track reconstruction; neutrino telescope; neutrino astrophysics;

D O I：

10.1016/j.nima.2004.01.065

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

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 1500 and 2000 m. 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 2degrees accuracy. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：169 / 194

页数：26

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