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Reconstruction of Composite Events in Neutrino Telescopes

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Neutrino telescopes detect the emission of Cherenkov light resulting from the tracks and showers of charged and neutral current neutrino interactions. These tracks or showers are reconstructed using a corresponding probability density function (PDF) which depends on measured time and location of the detected photo-electrons. We call a composite event the mixed detector response due to the juxtaposition of more than one Cherenkov light source (track or shower). This paper presents the construction of a generic PDF corresponding to a composite hypothesis. This composite PDF is therefore useful to reconstruct an arbitrary event topology and to favor or discard a given event topology hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611604,
  title  = {Reconstruction of Composite Events in Neutrino Telescopes},
  author = {Mathieu Ribordy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611604},
  year   = {2008}
}

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refeered version, accepted for publication, NIM A