Modern Statistical Methods for GLAST Event Analysis

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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To appear in the proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium (held at Stanford University, 5-8 February 2007)

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10.1063/1.2757330

We describe a statistical reconstruction methodology for the GLAST LAT. The methodology incorporates in detail the statistics of the interactions of photons and charged particles with the tungsten layers in the LAT, and uses the scattering distributions to compute the full probability distribution over the energy and direction of the incident photons. It uses model selection methods to estimate the probabilities of the possible geometrical configurations of the particles produced in the detector, and numerical marginalization over the energy loss and scattering angles at each layer. Preliminary results show that it can improve on the tracker-only energy estimates for muons and electrons incident on the LAT.

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