A Fast Algorithm for Muon Track Reconstruction and its Application to the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Creators: name: ANTARES Collaboration
name: Aguilar, J. A.
name: Samarai, I. Al
name: Albert, A.
name: Andre, M.
name: Anghinolfi, M.
name: Anton, G.
name: Anvar, S.
name: Ardid, M.
name: Jesus, A. C. Assis
name: Astraatmadja, T.
name: Aubert, J-J.
name: Auer, R.
name: Baret, B.
name: Basa, S.
name: Bazzotti, M.
name: Bertin, V.
name: Biagi, S.
name: Bigongiari, C.
name: Bogazzi, C.
name: Bou-Cabo, M.
name: Bouwhuis, M. C.
name: Brown, A. M.
name: Brunner, J.
name: Busto, J.
name: Camarena, F.
name: Capone, A.
name: Carloganu, C.
name: Carminati, G.
name: Carr, J.
name: Cecchini, S.
name: Charvis, Ph.
name: Chiarusi, T.
name: Circella, M.
name: Coniglione, R.
name: Costantini, H.
name: Cottini, N.
name: Coyle, P.
name: Curtil, C.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Dekeyser, I.
name: Deschamps, A.
name: Distefano, C.
name: Donzaud, C.
name: Dornic, D.
name: Dorosti, Q.
name: Drouhin, D.
name: Eberl, T.
name: Emanuele, U.
name: Ernenwein, J-P.
name: Escoffier, S.
name: Fehr, F.
name: Flaminio, V.
name: Fritsch, U.
name: Fuda, J-L.
name: Galata, S.
name: Gay, P.
name: Giacomelli, G.
name: Gomez-Gonzalez, J. P.
name: Graf, K.
name: Guillard, G.
name: Halladjian, G.
name: Hallewell, G.
name: van Haren, H.
name: Heijboer, A. J.
name: Hello, Y.
name: Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
name: Herold, B.
name: Hößl, J.
name: Hsu, C. C.
name: de Jong, M.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N.
name: Kalekin, O.
name: Kappes, A.
name: Katz, U.
name: Kooijman, P.
name: Kopper, C.
name: Kouchner, A.
name: Kulikovskiy, V.
name: Lahmann, R.
name: Lamare, P.
name: Larosa, G.
name: Lefevre, D.
name: Lim, G.
name: Presti, D. Lo
name: Loehner, H.
name: Loucatos, S.
name: Lucarelli, F.
name: Mangano, S.
name: Marcelin, M.
name: Margiotta, A.
name: Martinez-Mora, J. A.
name: Mazure, A.
name: Meli, A.
name: Montaruli, T.
name: Morganti, M.
name: Moscoso, L.
name: Motz, H.
name: Naumann, C.
name: Neff, M.
name: Palioselitis, D.
name: Pavalas, G. E.
name: Payre, P.
name: Petrovic, J.
name: Picot-Clemente, N.
name: Picq, C.
name: Popa, V.
name: Pradier, T.
name: Presani, E.
name: Racca, C.
name: Reed, C.
name: Riccobene, G.
name: Richardt, C.
name: Richter, R.
name: Rostovtsev, A.
name: Rujoiu, M.
name: Russo, G. V.
name: Salesa, F.
name: Sapienza, P.
name: Schöck, F.
name: Schuller, J-P.
name: Shanidze, R.
name: Simeone, F.
name: Spiess, A.
name: Spurio, M.
name: Steijger, J. J. M.
name: Stolarczyk, Th.
name: Taiuti, M.
name: Tamburini, C.
name: Tasca, L.
name: Toscano, S.
name: Vallage, B.
name: Van Elewyck, V.
name: Vannoni, G.
name: Vecchi, M.
name: Vernin, P.
name: Wijnker, G.
name: de Wolf, E.
name: Yepes, H.
name: Zaborov, D.
name: Zornoza, J. D.
name: Zuniga, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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.