Energy reconstruction methods in the IceCube neutrino telescope

被引:191
作者
Aartsen, M. G. [2 ]
Abbasi, R. [31 ,32 ]
Ackermann, M. [50 ]
Adams, J. [16 ]
Aguilar, J. A. [25 ]
Ahlers, M. [31 ,32 ]
Altmann, D. [24 ]
Arguelles, C. [31 ,32 ]
Auffenberg, J. [31 ,32 ]
Bai, X. [36 ,37 ]
Baker, M. [31 ,32 ]
Barwick, S. W. [27 ]
Baum, V. [33 ]
Bay, R. [8 ]
Beatty, J. J. [18 ,19 ,20 ]
Tjus, J. Becker [11 ]
Becker, K-H. [49 ]
BenZvi, S. [31 ,32 ]
Berghaus, P. [50 ]
Berley, D. [17 ]
Bernardini, E. [50 ]
Bernhard, A. [35 ]
Besson, D. Z. [29 ]
Binder, G. [8 ,9 ]
Bindig, D. [49 ]
Bissok, M. [1 ]
Blaufuss, E. [17 ]
Blumenthal, J. [1 ]
Boersma, D. J. [48 ]
Bohm, C. [40 ,41 ]
Bose, D. [39 ,43 ]
Boeser, S. [12 ]
Botner, O. [48 ]
Brayeur, L. [14 ]
Bretz, H-P. [50 ]
Brown, A. M. [16 ]
Bruijn, R. [28 ]
Casey, J. [5 ,6 ]
Casier, M. [14 ]
Chirkin, D. [31 ,32 ]
Christov, A. [25 ]
Christy, B. [17 ]
Clark, K. [44 ]
Classen, L. [24 ]
Clevermann, F. [22 ]
Coenders, S. [1 ]
Cohen, S. [28 ]
Cowen, D. F. [46 ,47 ]
Silva, A. H. Cruz [50 ]
Danninger, M. [40 ,41 ]
机构
[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[2] Univ Adelaide, Sch Chem & Phys, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[3] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA
[4] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA
[5] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[6] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[7] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[9] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[10] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[11] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[12] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[13] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Sci Fac CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[14] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[15] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[16] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch, New Zealand
[17] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[18] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[19] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[20] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[21] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[22] TU Dortmund Univ, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[23] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
[24] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[25] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[26] Univ Ghent, Dept Phys & Astron, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[27] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[28] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, High Energy Phys Lab, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[29] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[30] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[31] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[32] Univ Wisconsin, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophys Ctr, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[33] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[34] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[35] Tech Univ Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[36] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[37] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[38] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England
[39] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA
[40] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[41] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[42] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[43] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Phys, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[44] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[45] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[46] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[47] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[48] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
[49] Berg Univ Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
[50] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany
来源
JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION | 2014年 / 9卷
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Cherenkov detectors; dE/dx detectors; Neutrino detectors; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors; GLACIAL ICE; PERFORMANCE; DEPENDENCE; MEDIA;
D O I
10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/P03009
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cherenkov light produced by the transit through a medium of charged particles created in neutrino interactions. The amount of light emitted is proportional to the deposited energy, which is approximately equal to the neutrino energy for v(e) and v(mu) charged-current interactions and can be used to set a lower bound on neutrino energies and to measure neutrino spectra statistically in other channels. Here we describe methods and performance of reconstructing charged-particle energies and topologies from the observed Cherenkov light yield, including techniques to measure the energies of uncontained muon tracks, achieving average uncertainties in electromagnetic-equivalent deposited energy of similar to 15% above 10 TeV.
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