February 2024#

Meeting with Kaeli, Thursday Feb. 6#

Poisson Error#

See also

An important paper on this topic: Feldman and Counsins

tasks#

  • Check if flight path indeed has an impact on the effective area

    • make simulations with Anita III config (flight path: 9) using the latest version of pueosim (Jan ‘24)

    • make simulations with Anita IV flight path (flight path: 8) using the latest version of pueosim (Jan ‘24)

    • make simulations with default config (flight path: 0, ie. balloon not moving) using the latest version of pueosim (Jan ‘24)

    • Plot the effective areas of above three along with the data from Dec. ‘22 that Kaeli sent me.

../_images/Feb_6_effective_area_plot.png

Fig. 2 Made with latest PueoSim (Jan 2024).#

Meeting with Kaeli, Tuesday Feb. 14#

software commit hash#

Table 11 commits of nicemc and pueoSim used for effective area history plot#

Date

nicemc

pueoSim

libAntarcticaRoot

Jan. 2023

f3880dc

7340dbd

e49c0559f1815512fb296b5bb6b314d95f2bb7bd (Apr. 29, 2023)
could not find link

Feb. 2023

no commit

no commit

March 2023

7b0acfe

f7ef28e

e49c0559f1815512fb296b5bb6b314d95f2bb7bd (Apr. 29, 2023)
could not find link

August 2023

a11998c

ce37c49

6dc9447
(Oct. 20, 2023)

Table 12 Number of neutrinos passed#

total number thrown

number passed

number passed (weighted)

Aug. ‘23, energy 21

10000

4047

0.517381

Aug. ‘23, energy 20

10000

1866

0.276859

Aug. ‘23, energy 19

40000

1508

0.205364

Aug. ‘23, energy 18.5

1000000

11486

1.5161

Aug. ‘23, energy 18

1000000

1655

0.121783

Note

something is wrong, these number change every time I run the macro that counts passed events.

Feb 21 Edit: Cosmin told me that this has to do with multithreading, so I probably want to turn that off.

../_images/Effective_area_history.png

Fig. 3 Red stars are from August 2023 reproduction runs.#