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A fast algorithm for muon track reconstruction and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope

ANTARES

Collaboration

•

J.A. Aguilar
(
- Valencia U., IFIC
)

2011

11 pages

Published in:

Astropart.Phys. 34 (2011) 652-662

e-Print:

1105.4116 [astro-ph.IM]

DOI:

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.003

Experiments:

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An algorithm is presented, that provides a fast and robust reconstruction of neutrino induced upward-going muons and a discrimination of these events from downward-going atmospheric muon background in data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The algorithm consists of a hit merging and hit selection procedure followed by fitting steps for a track hypothesis and a point-like light source. It is particularly well-suited for real time applications such as online monitoring and fast triggering of optical follow-up observations for multi-messenger studies. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated with Monte Carlo simulations and various distributions are compared with that obtained in ANTARES data.

Neutrino telescope
Track reconstruction
neutrino: particle identification
muon: track data analysis
muon: background
muon: atmosphere
numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
ANTARES
performance
monitoring

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