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Ahrens, J. ; Bai, X. ; Bay, R. ; Barwick, S. W. ; Becka, T. ; Becker, J. K. ; Becker, K.-H. ; Bernardini, E. ; Bertrand, D. ; Biron, A. ; Boersma, D. J. ; Boeser, S. ; Botner, O. ; Bouchta, A. ; Bouhali, O. ; Burgess, T. ; Carius, S. ; Castermans, T. ; Chirkin, D. ; Collin, B. ; Conrad, J. ; Cooley, J. ; Cowen, D. F. ; Davour, A. ; De Clercq, C. ; DeYoung, T. ; Desiati, P. ; Dewulf, J.-P. ; Ekstrom, P. ; Feser, T. ; Gaug, M. ; Gaisser, T. K. ; Ganugapati, R. ; Geenen, H. ; Gerhardt, L. ; Gross, A. ; Goldschmidt, A. ; Hallgren, A. ; Halzen, F. ; Hanson, K. ; Hardtke, R. ; Harenberg, T. ; Hauschildt, T. ; Helbing, K. ; Hellwig, M. ; Herquet, P. ; Hill, G. C. ; Hubert, D. ; Hughey, B. ; Hulth, P. O. ; Hultqvist, K. ; Hundertmark, S. ; Jacobsen, J. ; Karle, A. ; Kestel, M. ; Kopke, L. ; Kowalski, M. ; Kuehn, K. ; Lamoureux, J. I. ; Leich, H. ; Leuthold, M. ; Lindahl, P. ; Liubarsky, I. ; Madsen, J. ; Marciniewski, P. ; Matis, H. S. ; McParland, C. P. ; Messarius, T. ; Minaeva, Y. ; Miocinovic, P. ; Mock, P. C. ; Morse, R. ; Munich, K. S. ; Nam, J. ; Nahnhauer, R. ; Neunhoffer, T. ; Niessen, P. ; Nygren, D. R. ; Ogelman, H. ; Olbrechts, P. ; Perez de los Heros, C. ; Pohl, A. C. ; Porrata, R. ; Price, P. B. ; Przybylski, G. T. ; Rawlins, K. ; Resconi, E. ; Rhode, W. ; Ribordy, M. ; Richter, S. ; Rodriguez Martino, J. ; Ross, D. ; Sander, H.-G. ; Schinarakis, K. ; Schlenstedt, S. ; Schmidt, T. ; Schneider, D. ; Schwarz, R. ; Silvestri, A. ; Solarz, M. ; Spiczak, G. M. ; Spiering, C. ; Stamatikos, M. ; Steele, D. ; Steffen, P. ; Stokstad, R. G. ; Sulanke, K.-H. ; Streicher, O. ; Taboada, I. ; Thollander, L. ; Tilav, S. ; Wagner, W. ; Walck, C. ; Wang, Y.-R. ; Wiebusch, C. H. ; Wiedemann, C. ; Wischnewski, R. ; Wissing, H. ; Woschnagg, K. ; Yodh, G. ; AMANDA Collaboration (Collaboration author)

2004
North-Holland Publ. Co. Amsterdam

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2004.01.065

Report No.: astro-ph/0407044

Abstract: The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a high-energy neutrino telescope operating at the geographic South Pole. It is a lattice of photo-multiplier tubes buried deep in the polar ice between 1500m and 2000m. The primary goal of this detector is to discover astrophysical sources of high energy neutrinos. A high-energy muon neutrino coming through the earth from the Northern Hemisphere can be identified by the secondary muon moving upward through the detector. The muon tracks are reconstructed with a maximum likelihood method. It models the arrival times and amplitudes of Cherenkov photons registered by the photo-multipliers. This paper describes the different methods of reconstruction, which have been successfully implemented within AMANDA. Strategies for optimizing the reconstruction performance and rejecting background are presented. For a typical analysis procedure the direction of tracks are reconstructed with about 2 degree accuracy.

Keyword(s): neutrino: cosmic radiation ; muon: showers ; Cherenkov counter: water ; solids: water ; photomultiplier ; muon: track data analysis ; statistical analysis ; muon: background ; AMANDA ; bibliography

Note: Standort Zeuthen

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. DESY Retrocat (DESY(-2012))

Research Program(s):

1. 899 - ohne Topic (POF3-899) (POF3-899)

Experiment(s):

1. Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array

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