A Search for Neutrinos from Cosmic Point Sources using AMANDA-B10 with Emphasis on Limit Calculation Techniques

A search for cosmic point sources of neutrinos has been performed using data taken in 1999 with the AMANDA-B10 neutrino telescope. This work describes methods for signal and background separation and the statistical analysis of the final data sample. In particular, the multivariate method Support V...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conrad, Jan
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kärn- och partikelfysik 2003
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3591
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-554-5744-4