Improved modeling of in-ice particle showers for IceCube event reconstruction

Author affiliations

¹ III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

² Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia

³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508, U.S.A.

⁴ Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates St., Science Hall Rm 108, Box 19059, Arlington, TX 76019, U.S.A.

⁵ CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314, U.S.A.

⁶ School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A.

⁷ Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, U.S.A.

⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

⁹ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

¹⁰ Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

¹¹ Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

¹² Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

¹³ Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

¹⁴ Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

¹⁵ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.

¹⁶ Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

¹⁷ Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660, U.S.A.

¹⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand

¹⁹ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.

²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.

²¹ Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.

²² Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

²³ Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A.

²⁵ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E1, Canada

²⁶ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

²⁷ Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany

²⁸ Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland

²⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium

³⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.

³¹ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

³² Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

³³ Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada

³⁴ Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, U.S.A.

³⁵ Nevada Center for Astrophysics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, U.S.A.

³⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.

³⁷ Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology - CP3, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

³⁸ Department of Physics, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207-0001, U.S.A.

³⁹ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.

⁴⁰ Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.

⁴¹ Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

⁴² Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201, U.S.A.

⁴³ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany

⁴⁴ Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, U.S.A.

⁴⁵ Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.

⁴⁶ Columbia Astrophysics and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.

⁴⁷ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom

⁴⁸ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia Galileo Galilei, Università Degli Studi di Padova, I-35122 Padova PD, Italy

⁴⁹ Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.

⁵⁰ Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, U.S.A.

⁵¹ Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI 54022, U.S.A.

⁵² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.

⁵³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A.

⁵⁴ Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea

⁵⁵ Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

⁵⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, U.S.A.

⁵⁷ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea

⁵⁸ Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

⁵⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, U.S.A.

⁶⁰ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.

⁶¹ Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.

⁶² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden

⁶³ Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

⁶⁴ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany

⁶⁵ also at Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Sainik School Post, Bhubaneswar 751005, India

⁶⁶ also at Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

⁶⁷ also at Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan