| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 116, 2016
Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope (VLVnT-2015)
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| Article Number | 08004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Atmospheric Neutrino Phenomenology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611608004 | |
| Published online | 11 April 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611608004
Measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum with IceCube in the 79- and 86-String configuration
TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
a e-mail: tim.ruhe@tu-dortmund.de
b http://icecube.wisc.edu
Published online: 11 April 2016
IceCube is a neutrino telescope with an instrumented volume of one cubic kilometer. A total of 5160 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) is deployed on 86 strings forming a three dimensional detector array. Although primarily designed for the detection of neutrinos from astrophysical sources, the detector can be used for spectral measurements of atmospheric neutrinos. These spectral measurements are hindered by a dominant background of atmospheric muons. State-of-the-art techniques from Machine Learning and Data Mining are required to select a high-purity sample of atmospheric neutrino candidates. The energy spectrum of muon neutrinos is obtained from energy-dependent input variables by utilizing regularized unfolding. The results obtained using IceCube in the 79- and 86-string configuration are presented in this paper.
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