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Beyond 2015 Simulation Challenge

B2015 Simulation Challenge document (V7)

Info about available simulations

List of plots

3.1 Performance of individual stations

"The following information should be provided. As applicable to the item, quantitative values should be based on the analysis of individual stations using the reconstructed datasets at fixed energies (F) : 1019 eV and 1019.8 eV and for p, He, N and Fe primaries. The target for these metrics is the March meeting, with items (iii) and (v) having highest priority."

  • i. Strategy for calibrating the new detectors. Expected precision of the relative and absolute calibration to be achieved should be provided. Means for validating the calibration should be discussed.

  • ii. The time resolution of the signal trace(s) and response time of the detector.

    iii. The resolution and the bias in reconstructing the muonic signal (or electromagnetic signal, as applicable to the upgrade) in individual detector stations. The bias is defined as Delta(Smu)=(Smu,rec - Smu,MC)/Smu,MC and the resolution is given by its variance sigma(Delta(Smu)). These quantities should be shown as a function of the distance, r, of the tank to the shower core for each of the different zenith angles of the simulation sets (F).

    iv. Lateral distance range and corresponding typical range of signal amplitudes within which the detectors are expected to perform optimally. At a minimum this should include determination of the saturation distance, Rsat, defined to be the radius above which the reconstructed signal has less than a 20% departure from linearity in at least 90% of the events, for showers of 1019.8 eV, for the different angles as given in (F).

  • v. For a detector which is planned to trigger independently of the existing water-Cherenkov

detectors (WCD), or is a modification of the existing WCD, the trigger probability as function of the lateral distance of the detector should be given. In particular, above what distance and below what typical detector signal does the trigger probability fall below 95% and 50%?