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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 96: Neutrinoastronomie III

T 96.3: Talk

Thursday, March 12, 2015, 17:15–17:30, I.12.02 (HS 31)

Performance study of track and energy reconstruction in IceCube — •Matthias Huber, Kevin Abraham, and Stefan Coenders for the IceCube collaboration — TU München, Physik-Department, Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the World largest neutrino telescope located at the South Pole. It instruments one cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice with 5160 optical modules (DOMs) at a depth of about 1500 m to 2500 m.

IceCube found evidence for astrophysical neutrinos but still their sources remain hidden. Muons created in charged-current neutrino interactions give good reconstruction accuracy for the search of neutrino sources. Current analyses in IceCube, such as for instance the point source analysis, consist of several different methods to reconstruct the angular direction and resolution and the energy of track-like secondary muons.

This talk presents the performance of two different event reconstructions and an estimation of their uncertainties.