Galactic Plane Analysis Unblinding Proposal

John Kelley, UW-Madison, May 2005

(EGRET View of the Galactic Plane, Celestial Coordinates)

I present an unblinding proposal for a search for a flux of muon neutrinos from the galactic plane using AMANDA-II data from 2000-2003. The proposal is organized into the following sections:

1. Motivation and Signal Hypothesis
2. Data Sample and Data/MC Normalization
3. Signal Monte Carlo
4. Background Estimation, Optimization, and Sensitivity
5. Questions and Answers
6. Unblinding Procedure and Results
7. Outlook for IceCube

Please send questions or comments to: jkelley@icecube.wisc.edu