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You can find the presentations of the working group at A1.1 and A2.1. AIM OF THE SESSION:
The working sessions on Design Parameters have the aim
to start a long term activity with the goal to compare
the physics potential of different sites in the Mediterranean
and of different detector designs.
The sessions will start with an overview over existings tools
for simulation and reconstruction. A result of this should be
the definition of an agreed tool box for future studies.
Speakers from Amanda, Antares, Baikal, Nemo and Nestor are
supposed to give an overview over the tools used in their
collaboration, starting with air shower generation and
ending with the detector response and reconstruction
and background rejection. Next, the input parameters for the three considered sites
- Antares, Nemo, Nestor - will be fixed as good as possible.
Also, we will suggest further measurements of
water parameters, if necessary. In a next step, a generic benchmark detector should be defined,
which by itself includes enough modules to derive the basic
configurations to be tested: a nested array close to the Nestor design,
a equally spaced array a la Antares, etc. Also, up-down
symmetric designs will be confronted to asymmetric configurations.
Next, parameters to judge the physics performance will be
defined: sensitivities for exclusion and detection, pointing
resolution, effective areas after all cuts, etc. Also, the
signatures will be defined: diffuse fluxes at high energies,
point sources, cascades, ... The workshop should end with a plan for a collaborative
working program over approximately one year, when APPEC requests
a first report. Proposed talks:
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