February 2024

Meeting with Kaeli, Thursday Feb. 6

Poisson Error

• We talked about the error bar script. Specifically, the poissonerrors.

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.

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

• Go over Will’s util scrtips.

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.

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