Rock Bottom (RB)

Detector Specific Maintainers:

• IceTop: Dennis Soldin <soldin@udel.edu> and Mark Weyrauch <mark.weyrauch@kit.edu>

• Scintillators: Agneiszka Leszczyńska <agnlesz@udel.edu>

• Radio: Alan Coleman <alanc@udel.edu> and Stef Verpoest <stef.verpoest@icecube.wisc.edu>

• Release Notes
• Overview of the project
  • Flow of data during an event reco
• Notes for Developers
  • Guidelines
• Setting Up a Reconstruction
  • LDF Construction
  • Signal Model Construction
  • LLH Construction
  • Seed Setup
  • Combining LLHs
• Particle distribution functions
  • Lateral distribution functions
  • Shower-front shape
• Radio-emission distribution functions
  • Lateral distribution functions
  • Timing functions
• Radio specific functions
  • Likelihood functions
  • Signal models
• Scintillator specific functions
  • Likelihood functions
  • Signal models
• Skeletons
  • Developing a new likelihood
  • Developing a new model

• Python API Reference
  • icecube.rock_bottom.modules package
    • icecube.rock_bottom.modules.IgnoreFrame module
    • icecube.rock_bottom.modules.SeedLogS125 module
    • icecube.rock_bottom.modules.WriteSeed module
  • icecube.rock_bottom.segments package
    • icecube.rock_bottom.segments.RockBottomLaputopCoinc module
    • icecube.rock_bottom.segments.RockBottomLaputopRedo module
    • icecube.rock_bottom.segments.RockBottomTwoLDF module
    • icecube.rock_bottom.segments.RockBottomTwoLDFCoinc module
  • icecube.rock_bottom.converters module
• C++ API Reference
• IceTray Inspect Reference

---

Introduction

This project is a framework to perform a reconstruction for any surface-array detector + in-ice… or any combination thereof. The idea is that this framework is very modular such that you can easily swap out aspects of the reconstruction.

The focus here is on flexibility of the code such that a multi-detector (but also single detector) reconstructions are possible. As such, the organization of the code was chosen specifically such that developers do not have to know how the other detectors’ reconstruction works in detail but also that it is not possible, or at least unlikely, that the a developer would break another detector’s code.

Note

Additionally, the ability to perform surface + in-ice reconstructions means that the code is, in some sense, hamstrung by the requirements of Gulliver and Lilliput. So some functions, while never called explicitly in RB, are still integral to the project.