PT Journal
AU ANTARES Collaboration (Aguilar, JAea
   Bigongiari, C
   Dornic, D
   Emanuele, U
   Gomez-Gonzalez, JP
   Hernandez-Rey, JJ
   Mangano, S
   Salesa, F
   Toscano, S
   Yepes, H
   Zornoza, JD
   Zuñiga, J
TI A fast algorithm for muon track reconstruction and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope
SO Astroparticle Physics
JI Astropart Phys.
PY 2011
BP 652
EP 662
VL 34
IS 9
DI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.003
LA English
DE Neutrino telescope; Track reconstruction
AB An algorithm is presented, that provides a fast and robust reconstruction of neutrino induced upward-going muons and a discrimination of these events from downward-going atmospheric muon background in data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The algorithm consists of a hit merging and hit selection procedure followed by fitting steps for a track hypothesis and a point-like light source. It is particularly well-suited for real time applications such as online monitoring and fast triggering of optical follow-up observations for multi-messenger studies. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated with Monte Carlo simulations and various distributions are compared with that obtained in ANTARES data.
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