Testing the Pointing of IceCube Using the Moon Shadow in Cosmic-Ray-Induced Muons
Creators: name: IceCube Collaboration
name: Philippen, Saskia
name: Abbasi, Rasha
name: Ackermann, Markus
name: Adams, Jenni
name: Aguilar, Juanan
name: Ahlers, M.
name: Ahrens, Maryon
name: Alispach, Cyril Martin
name: Alves Junior, Antonio Augusto
name: Amin, Najia Moureen Binte
name: An, Rui
name: Andeen, Karen
name: Anderson, Tyler
name: Anton, Gisela
name: Arguelles, Carlos
name: Ashida, Yosuke
name: Axani, Spencer
name: Bai, Xinhua
name: Balagopal V., Aswathi
name: Barbano, Anastasia Maria
name: Barwick, S. W.
name: Bastian, Benjamin
name: Basu, Vedant
name: Baur, Sebastian
name: Bay, R. C.
name: Beatty, J. J.
name: Becker, K.-H.
name: Becker Tjus, Julia
name: Bellenghi, Chiara
name: BenZvi, Segev
name: Berley, D.
name: Bernardini, Elisa
name: Besson, D. Z.
name: Binder, Gary
name: Bindig, Daniel
name: Blaufuss, E.
name: Blot, Summer
name: Boddenberg, Matthias
name: Bontempo, Federico
name: Borowka, Jurgen
name: Boser, S.
name: Botner, Olga
name: Bottcher, Jakob
name: Bourbeau, Etienne
name: Bradascio, Federica
name: Braun, J.
name: Bron, Stephanie
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name: Browne, Sally-Ann
name: Burgman, Alexander
name: Burley, Ryan
name: Busse, Raffaela
name: Campana, Michael
name: Carnie-Bronca, Erin
name: Chen, Chujie
name: Chirkin, Dmitry
name: Choi, Koun
name: Clark, Brian
name: Clark, Kenneth
name: Classen, Lew
name: Coleman, Alan
name: Collin, Gabriel
name: Conrad, J. M.
name: Coppin, Paul
name: Correa, Pablo
name: Cowen, D. F.
name: Cross, R.
name: Dappen, Christian
name: Dave, Pranav
name: DE CLERCQ, Catherine
name: DeLaunay, James
name: Dembinski, Hans
name: Deoskar, Kunal
name: De Ridder, Sam
name: Desai, Abhishek
name: Desiati, Paolo
name: Vries, Krijn De
name: Wasseige, Gwenhaël De
name: De With, Meike
name: DeYoung, Tyce
name: Dharani, Sukeerthi
name: Diaz, Alejandro
name: Diaz-Velez, Juan Carlos
name: Dittmer, Markus
name: Dujmovic, Hrvoje
name: Dunkman, Matt
name: DuVernois, Michael
name: Dvorak, Emily
name: Ehrhardt, Thomas
name: Eller, Philipp
name: Engel, Ralph
name: Erpenbeck, Hannah
name: Evans, John
name: Evenson, P. A.
name: Fan, Kwok Lung
name: Fazely, A. R.
name: Fiedlschuster, Sebastian
name: Fienberg, Aaron
name: Filimonov, Kirill
name: Finley, Chad
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name: Fox, Derek B.
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name: Furst, Philipp
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name: Twagirayezu, Jean Pierre
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name: Vandenbroucke, Justin
name: Eijndhoven, Nick Van
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name: Santen, Jakob Van
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name: Vraeghe, Matthias
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name: Weigel, Philip
name: Weindl, Andreas
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name: Weldert, Jan
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name: Weyrauch, Mark
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name: Wiebusch, C. H.
name: Williams, Dawn
name: Wolf, Martin
name: Woschnagg, Kurt
name: Wrede, Gerrit
name: Wulff, Johan
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name: Yu, Shiqi
name: Yuan, Tianlu
name: Zhang, Zelong
Publisher: name: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Year: 2022

description: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer-scaled detector located at the Geographic South Pole. The calibration of the directional reconstruction of neutrino-induced muons and the pointing accuracy of the detector have to be verified. For these purposes, the moon is used as a standard candle to not rely exclusively on simulated data: Cosmic rays get absorbed by the moon, which leads to a deficit of cosmic-ray-induced muons from the lunar direction that is measured with high statistics. The moon shadow analysis uses an unbinned maximum-likelihood method, which has been methodically improved, and uses a larger detector compared to previous analyses. This allows to observe the shadow with a large significance per month. In the first part, it is found that incorporating a moon disk model, a coordinate-dependent uncertainty scaling and an improved background estimation increase the significance compared to a previous more simplistic analysis. In the second part, the performance of two new directional muon reconstruction algorithms is verified.