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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 22: Poster

T 22.5: Poster

Monday, March 25, 2019, 16:00–18:30, C.A.R.L. Foyer 1. OG

Analysis of the moon shadow in the IceCube detector and it's sensitivity dependence on the angular reconstruction method — •Aakash Bhat, Thorsten Gluesenkamp, and Gisela Anton for the IceCube collaboration — Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

The moon shadow is an observed deficit in cosmic-ray muons from the direction of the moon compared to the average muon flux from the same declination. The observation of such a phenomenon by the IceCube detector can be used to confirm the angular resolution of the detector and the robustness of the reconstruction method used. Here we analyze IceCube data taken from detector runs in 2015 and investigate the effect of the angular reconstruction method and exact statistical analysis on the moon sensitivity.