PDD - Prerequisites and Schedule
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9 Data Analysis- 9.1 Introduction
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9.2 Analysis Infrastructure
- 9.2.1 Calibration Analysis and Data Quality Working Group
- 9.2.2 Simulation Working Group
- 9.2.3 Reconstruction Working Group
- 9.3 Computing Infrastructure
- 9.4 Physics Analysis
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9.5 Internal Review Procedure
- 9.5.1 Introduction
- 9.5.2 Procedure
- 9.6 Prerequisites and Schedule
9.6 Prerequisites and Schedule
IceCube data analysis obviously requires filtered data, which depends on numerous aspects of the data handling machinery to be in place, and on geometry and other low level constants placed into a functioning database. The analysis framework software must be functioning. The post-filter clusters must be operating. The simulation framework and generation software must be capable of simulating background and signal events, and the simulation cluster must be operating. Basic monitoring information is required to permit verification of data quality. The data analysis management structure should be in place.
Initial analysis efforts will focus on verifying overall detector performance in order to demonstrate clearly that IceCube is a functioning neutrino telescope. With this in mind, analysis of atmospheric muons, especially in conjunction with IceTop, and analyses of atmospheric electron and muon neutrinos, would all be a high priority.
Subsequent effort will focus on those analysis topics that do not require substantial numbers of strings to get started, such as searches for WIMPs, monopoles, supernovae, and extremely high energy cascades. Analysis topics relying on more strings, like searches for ultrahigh energy muons and cascades from point sources and diffuse sources, searches for ultrahigh energy tau neutrino interactions, and IceTop composition studies would follow.
