Hardware integration of the AMANDA into the IceCube Neutrino Telescope and search for supersymmetric particles with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope / vorgelegt von Andreas Tepe. 2009
Inhalt
- Nomenclature
- Introduction
- Neutrinos from Cosmic Rays
- Neutrinos and their Properties
- High Energy Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos
- Cosmic Rays
- The Waxman-Bahcall-Limit
- Z-Bursts
- Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
- Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cutoff
- Topological Defects
- High Energy Neutrino Detection
- The Hardware Integration of AMANDA into IceCube
- AMANDA and IceCube
- AMANDA/IceCube Integration
- Motivation
- Demands on the Integration System
- Realization of the Hardware Synchronization
- The GPS Latch GPS4TWR
- CLK2ECL and the Backplane
- The Optical to Electrical Converter OPT2EL
- The AMANDA DOM Mainboards, the Cable Simulator and the AMANDA DOMHub
- The SyncCrate
- The Improved Trigger Logic
- The Hardware Synchronization Scheme
- Software Changes
- DSP Software Improvement
- Synchronization Test System
- Implementation at the South Pole
- Synchronization Verification
- Absolute Cable Delay between MAPO and ICL
- Observation of the Synchronization Stability with TestDAQ
- AMANDA/IceCube Synchronization Checker
- Results
- Searching SUSY Matter with IceCube
- Supersymmetry
- Why Supersymmetry?
- Concept of Supersymmetry
- SUSYs in IceCube
- Neutrino Induced SUSY Particle Production
- Background for stau Detection
- Simulation of SUSY Events
- Simulating Simply -- The SUSY-simple-gen Module
- Simulation of double stau tracks with the SUSY-gen Module
- Searching for SUSY events
- Filter Description
- Event Cleaning
- Number of Hit DOMs
- Number and Position of Hit Strings
- Track Direction
- Flatness
- Sphericity
- Event Causality
- External Event Processing
- Filter Settings
- Applying the SUSYFilter
- Online or Offline Filtering
- Résumé and Outlook
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Generation of a Power Law Energy Spectrum
- Generation of an Equal Point Distribution on a Sphere
- Generation of an Arbitrary Distribution
- Power Law Distribution in Double Logarithmic Plot
- Particle Generation in the CM System
- Correct Treatment of the Neutrino Interaction
- stau Generation Modules
- stau Filtering Modules
- Bibliography
- List of Figures
- Index