Search for mildly relativistic magnetic monopoles with IceCube / vorgelegt von Anna Maria Pollmann, geb. Obertacke. Wuppertal, November 2015
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Zusammenfassung
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 IceCube
- 2 Magnetic Monopoles
- 3 Interaction with matter
- 3.1 Monopole-electron cross section
- 3.2 Energy loss
- 3.2.1 Standard model particles
- 3.2.2 Collisional losses
- 3.2.3 Radiative energy losses
- 3.2.4 Weak and strong interactions
- 3.3 Cherenkov light
- 4 Simulation and data processing
- 4.1 Background simulation
- 4.1.1 Muons originating from air showers
- 4.1.2 Neutrinos
- 4.1.3 Particle Propagation
- 4.1.4 Light generation and propagation
- 4.2 Signal simulation
- 4.3 Burn sample
- 4.4 Standard processing
- 4.5 Discussion
- 5 Event selection
- 5.1 Processing and reconstruction
- 5.2 Pull-validation
- 5.3 Uncertainties
- 5.4 Background expectation
- 5.4.1 Model rejection factor
- 5.4.2 Calculation of sensitivity
- 5.4.3 Calculation of limit
- 5.4.4 Velocity dependence
- 5.5 Discussion
- 6 Results
- 7 Conclusion and outlook
- Appendices
- A Further detection mechanisms
- B Check of the detected PeV track
- C Analysis methods
- D Computational methods
- D.1 Statistics
- D.2 Generation of random numbers giving a power law
- D.3 Weighting
- D.4 Plotting angular distributions
- E Further plots and tables
- E.1 Values of the final limit
- E.2 Unblinded events
- E.3 Pre-cuts for pull-validation
- E.4 Features for pull-validation
- References
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Index