Search for exotic double tracks with the IceCube neutrino telescope / Sandro Kopper. Wuppertal, April 2017
Inhalt
- Dedication
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acronyms
- Theory and Experiment
- 1 Cosmic Rays
- 2 Air Showers
- 3 Relativistic Charged Particles in Matter
- 4 Neutrino Astronomy
- 5 The IceCube Experiment
- 5.1 The IceCube Detector
- 5.2 Ice properties at the IceCube site
- 5.3 IceCube Hardware and Software
- 5.3.1 Digital Optical Modules
- 5.3.2 Data Aquisition Electronics
- 5.3.3 DOM Calibrations
- 5.3.4 Surface Hardware and Software
- 5.4 Data Filtering
- 6 Physics Beyond the Standard Modell
- Simulation and Analysis
- 7 Neutrino Induced Double Tracks
- 7.1 Air Shower Muon and Neutrino Simulation
- 7.2 Double Track Simulation
- 7.3 Coincident Events
- 7.4 Photon Propagation and Detector Simulation
- 8 Double Track Reconstruction and Cut Variables
- 8.1 Tensor of Inertia Based Reconstruction
- 8.2 k-Means Based Reconstruction
- 8.3 Likelihood Reconstructions
- 8.4 Data Selection Cuts
- 9 Choice of Cuts
- 10 Results
- 11 Systematic Uncertainties
- 11.1 Monte Carl Statistics
- 11.2 Ice Mode and Photon Propagator
- 11.3 DOM Efficiency
- 11.4 Background Events
- 11.5 Signal Modeling
- 11.6 Inclusion of Systematic Uncertainties
- 12 Discussion and Future Improvements
- Appendix