2005 AMANDA Point Source Analysis

Data Sample
Simulation
Event Selection
Methodology
Sensitivity, Discovery Potential, & Systematics
Unblinding Proposal
Results
Questions and Answers
NASA/ESA Hubble

Simulation

Signal MC is generated using Simuperl with the following configuration

GeneratorNUSIM
Energy Range10^1 - 10^8 GeV
Zenith Range80 < Zenith < 180
Events/File10000
Photon SimulationPTD
Ice ModelMAM
AMASIMAluminum-opt5
OM SensitivityStandard

Background MC

  • ~5.6 days dcorsika (Photonics + Aluminum-fix)
  • 16k events coincident-muon (Photonics + Aluminum-fix)

Files

Diffuse neutrino300+300 files/net/user/jbraun/analysis/point_source/amanda/2005/sim/nusim_ptd_new/
Declination bands spaced by 5 degrees5+5 files per band/data/sim/AMANDA/2005/point_source
dCORSIKA~5.6 days LT/data/sim/AMANDA/2005/dcorsika
Coincident-muon16k events/data/sim/AMANDA/2005/coinc_mu

Processing

AMASIM output is filtered identically to the filtered data, except for the obvious removal of the SPASE stream and associated processing.