4–8 Nov 2019
Adelaide Convention Centre
Australia/Adelaide timezone

Edepillim: A New Muon Energy Reconstruction Method

7 Nov 2019, 12:15
15m
Riverbank R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Riverbank R6

Adelaide Convention Centre

Oral Track 2 – Offline Computing Track 2 – Offline Computing

Speaker

Dr Sally Robertson (University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Description

Large scale neutrino detectors are relying on accurate muon energy estimates to infer neutrino energy. Reconstruction methods which incorporate physics knowledge will produce a better result. The muon energy reconstruction algorithm Edepillim takes into account the entire pattern of energy loss along the muon track and uses probability distribution functions describing muon energy losses to perform a maximum likelihood reconstruction for the initial muon energy. This work demonstrates the good reconstruction resolution of this method on idealised simulation by comparison to other energy reconstruction methods.

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Primary authors

Dr Sally Robertson (University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Prof. Gary Hill (University of Adelaide)

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