performance of the amanda-ii detector
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Performance of the AMANDA-II Detector. R.Wischnewski for the AMANDA Collaboration; DESY-Zeuthen, Germany. AMANDA-II Detector. Largest High Energy Neutrino-Detector ever built:An open Under-Ice Cerenkov Detector for high energy muons and showers. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Performance of the AMANDA-II Detector
Performance of the AMANDA-II Detector
AMANDA-II Detector
First Analysis
Conclusions
Largest High Energy Neutrino-Detector ever built:An open Under-Ice Cerenkov Detector for high energy muons and showers. 19 vertical strings with 677 Optical Modules (OM): 8 inch PMTs with analog pulse transmission to surface. Construction started in fall 1995, full detector commssioned in early 2000. Different technologies applied: strings 1-10: analog electrical pulse transmission strings 11-19: analog fiber pulse transmission 1 test string with Digital OM technology (IceCube prototype)
Results obtained with the10 string detector AMANDA-B10 (1997 data) Isolation of 325 atmospheric vμ achieved - proof of performance (Nature,2001) - HE2.03
Limits on flux of HE diffuse vμ/ve-flux (AGN) - HE2.03 Limits on v-flux from point sources and GRB and UHE-v - HE232/236 Limit on WIMPs, on relativistic magnetic Monopoles and galactic Supernova v‘s - HE231
Reconstructed zenith angle cos(Θreco) (left) and azimuth angle Φreco (right, in degress) at trtigger level
Signal Expectation
R.Wischnewski for the AMANDA Collaboration; DESY-Zeuthen, Germany
AMANDA-II is in stable operation and delivers high quality muon and neutrino data. Neutrino-event selection is much improved over AMANDA-B10 by better geometry and better OM timing. Neutrino event-rates will be at least 3 times larger compared to B10. Angular acceptance is much improved for horizontal tracks, opening full lower hemisphere for HE-neutrino astronomy. DAQ-Upgrade planned for 2001/02 for improved HE/UHE sensitivity.
Trigger: majority trigger (>23 OMs in 2.5 μs) and local cluster trigger external: EAS-array SPASEData sample: 1.3 TB raw data in ca. 250 run days in 2000
MC-data comparison at trigger and higher v-cut levels number of hit PMTs (nOM), angular-distributions, pass.-rates fit well absolute rates & vertical hit structure under study (ice, noise)
Data-analysis for AMANDA-II/2000 has started.Preliminary v -cuts developed.
Number of hit optical modules per event, nOM(dots- exper., histogram -MC).
Astrophysical sources: AGN, GRB, SN-shells, topological defects,... with spectra much harder than v‘s generated in the atmosphere
Assume a diffuse AGN E-2 spectrum: 10-6 E-2 GeV sr-1 s-1 cm-2
Trigger level acceptance of vμ and v e Charged Current (CC) and Neutral Current (NC) interactions:
Neutrino energy spectrum for events, triggering
AMANDA-II: CC vμ-events (thick lines) and CC ve-
events (thin lines) for atmospheric neutrinos (full lines) and AGN like neutrinos (dashed-dotted lines).
Zenith angle distribution for atmospherci nmu MC events in AMANDA-II (full line), compared to AMANDA-B10 detector (dashed). Preliminary cuts, normalized for vertical bin.
AGN
Atm
The various analog OMs used in AMANDA-II: electrical and fiber readout modules, and the digitally controlled module (from left to right). For Digital OM see H.E.2.05
An AMANDA-II v-candidate close to the horizon,May 2000.
vμ
ve
AMANDA-IIAMANDA-II
AMANDA-B10AMANDA-B10
Triggered events / year Atmospheric AGNvμ 11000 (CC) 130 (NC) 853 (CC)
ve 162 (CC) 9 (NC) 103 (CC)