Stopping Atmospheric Muon Analysis

Measurement of stopping atmospheric muons using IceCube’s in-ice array.

Contact: lucas.witthaus@tu-dortmund.de

CR WG Analysis Reviewer: Dennis Soldin

Collaboration Reviewer: Christian Haack

Code is available here: /home/lwitthaus/StoppingMuonAnalysis/

Unblinding Plans: 1 year (2020)

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Content:

• Overview
• Event Selection
  • Data Sets
  • Deep Neural Network
  • Selection Results
  • Data-MC Agreement
  • Systematic Effects
• Effective Area Estimation
  • Concept
  • Application to the Stopping Muon Sample
  • Adjustment of the General Approach
  • The Problem with Existing IceCube Simulations
  • New CORSIKA Simulations
• Unfolding
  • The Concept of Unfolding
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • funfolding
    • MCMC Sampling
    • Parameter Optimization
    • Systematic Uncertainties
• Results
  • Unfolding Results using funfolding
• Systematic Checks
  • Flux Models
  • Fitting Nuisance Parameters
  • Impact of regularization
• Technical Documentation
  • Processing the data
  • Training the Network
  • Data
  • Running the analysis
    • Main
    • Loading data
    • Analysis cuts
    • Reconstructions
    • Effective area
    • Unfolding
    • Systematics
    • Binning
    • General
    • Data
  • Notebooks for Testing
• Q & A
  • Questions by Collaboration Reviewer Christian Haack
    • Event selection
    • Effective area
    • Unfolding
  • Questions by CR WG Reviewer Dennis Soldin
    • Overview
    • Event selection
    • Effective area
    • Unfolding
    • Results
    • General

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Talks:

• Cosmic Ray Call 2024-02-23

• Cosmic Ray Call 2023-10-13

• Cosmic Ray Call 2023-05-12

• Cosmic Ray Call 2023-04-28

• Spring Collaboration Meeting 2023

• Cosmic Ray Call 2022-10-28

• Cosmic Ray Call 2022-02-11

• Cosmic Ray Call 2021-02-26