TY  - JOUR
AU  - ANTARES Collaboration (Aguilar, J. A. et al
AU  - Bigongiari, C.
AU  - Dornic, D.
AU  - Emanuele, U.
AU  - Gomez-Gonzalez, J. P.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Mangano, S.
AU  - Salesa, F.
AU  - Toscano, S.
AU  - Yepes, H.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011//
TI  - A fast algorithm for muon track reconstruction and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope
T2  - Astropart Phys.
JO  - Astroparticle Physics
SP  - 652
EP  - 662
VL  - 34
IS  - 9
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
KW  - Neutrino telescope
KW  - 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.
SN  - 0927-6505
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4116
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.003
DO  - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.003
LA  - English
N1  - ISI:000289329100002
ID  - ANTARESCollaborationAguilar_etal2011
ER  -