PDD - Introduction
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5 Expected IceCube Performance- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Atmospheric Neutrinos
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5.3 Muon-Neutrino-Induced Muons
- 5.3.1 Simulation
- 5.3.2 Reconstruction and Background Rejection
- 5.3.3 Sensitivity to Diffuse Sources of Muon Neutrinos
- 5.3.4 Sensitivity to Muon Neutrino Point Sources
- 5.3.5 Sensitivity to Muon Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 5.3.6 Possible Improvements
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5.4 Electromagnetic and Hadronic Cascades
- 5.4.1 Simulation
- 5.4.2 Reconstruction
- 5.4.3 Effective Volume
- 5.4.4 Sensitivity to Atmospheric ν
- 5.4.5 Sensitivity to Point Sources
- 5.4.6 Sensitivity to Diffuse νe Sources
- 5.4.7 Sensitivity to GRBs
- 5.4.8 Possible Improvements
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5.5 Tau Neutrinos
- 5.5.1 Tau Neutrino Event Rates
- 5.5.2 Tau Neutrino Simulations
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5.6 Neutrino Flavor Differentiation with Waveform Digitization
- 5.6.1 Photon Flux Distribution Generated by High Energy Cascades
- 5.6.2 ντ Event Signatures
- 5.6.3 Summary
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5.7 Lower Energy Phenomena and Exotica
- 5.7.1 Muon Neutrinos from WIMP annihilation
- 5.7.2 Neutrino oscillations
- 5.7.3 MeV Neutrinos from Supernovae
- 5.7.4 Relativistic magnetic monopoles
- 5.7.5 Slowly moving, bright particles
- 5.8 IceCube Configuration Flexibility
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5.9 Calibration of High-Level Detector Response Variables
- 5.9.1 Geometry Calibration
- 5.9.2 Calibration of Angular Response
- 5.9.3 Calibration of Vertex Resolution
- 5.9.4 Energy Calibration
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5.10 IceTop
- 5.10.1 Tagged Muon Bundles
- 5.10.2 IceTop as a Veto
- 5.10.3 Cosmic-ray Physics
5.1 Introduction
In this section we describe how well the IceCube detector will perform and show that it will reach the scientific goals described in Section 3. This performance depends crucially on signal detection efficiency, background rejection, and calibration of the detector response to high-level variables such as energy and direction and low-level variables such as hit times and amplitudes. Therefore, estimates of IceCube signal sensitivities and limit levels for a variety of potential signals are given, as well as descriptions of techniques for high-level calibration of the detector response (low-level calibrations are discussed separately in section 7). We also describe studies of the detector configuration in order to maximize detector performance.
