Next Steps

In this section, we list the next steps for the analysis.

Unfolding

• Unblinding proposal:

  • Process 12 years of experimental IceCube data for IC86 from 2011 to 2022

  • Determine regularization strength on data

  • Perform unfolding on data

• Post-unblinding checks

  • Check data-MC agreement for proxy variable (leading muon energy at entry) with the nominal MC dataset, and with the MC dataset re-weighted to the fitted ice systematics

  • Compare unfolded flux to previous muon flux measured by Patrick Berghaus

  • Compare unfolded flux to my previous burnsample unfolding

  • Compare unfolded flux to MCEq predictions (for all 4 primary models, and for different hadronic interaction models)