Computational Techniques for the Analysis of Small Signals in High-Statistics Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2019-12-05 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The current and upcoming generation of Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes---collecting unprecedented quantities of neutrino events---can be used to explore subtle effects in oscillation physics, such as (but not restricted to) the neutrino mass ordering. The sensitivity of an experiment to these effects can be estimated from Monte Carlo simulations. With the high number of events that will be collected, there is a trade-off between the computational expense of running such simulations and the inherent statistical uncertainty in the determined values. In such a scenario, it becomes impractical to produce and use adequately-sized sets of simulated events with traditional methods, such as Monte Carlo weighting. In this work we present a staged approach to the generation of binned event distributions in order to overcome these challenges. By combining multiple integration and smoothing techniques which address limited statistics from simulation it arrives at reliable analysis results using modest computational resources.
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@article{arxiv.1803.05390,
title = {Computational Techniques for the Analysis of Small Signals in High-Statistics Neutrino Oscillation Experiments},
author = {IceCube Collaboration and M. G. Aartsen and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and M. Ahrens and I. Al Samarai and D. Altmann and K. Andeen and T. Anderson and I. Ansseau and G. Anton and C. Argüelles and T. C. Arlen and J. Auffenberg and S. Axani and H. Bagherpour and X. Bai and A. Balagopal V. and J. P. Barron and I. Bartos and S. W. Barwick and V. Baum and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and J. Becker Tjus and K. -H. Becker and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and D. Z. Besson and G. Binder and D. Bindig and E. Blaufuss and S. Blot and C. Bohm and M. Bohmer and M. Börner and F. Bos and S. Böser and O. Botner and E. Bourbeau and J. Bourbeau and F. Bradascio and J. Braun and M. Brenzke and H. -P. Bretz and S. Bron and J. Brostean-Kaiser and A. Burgman and R. S. Busse and T. Carver and E. Cheung and D. Chirkin and A. Christov and K. Clark and L. Classen and G. H. Collin and J. M. Conrad and P. Coppin and P. Correa and D. F. Cowen and R. Cross and P. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05390},
year = {2019}
}