Simulating the Impact of Improved Reconstruction in IceCube Point Source Analyses

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory aims to detect astrophysical sources of neutrinos with data taken from a sample of muon neutrinos. In this poster, the reconstruction properties for events between 100 GeV to 100 PeV are statistically modified using simulated data from IC86 2011 - 2018 to test the amount of improvement more accurate reconstructions will have on the sensitivity and discovery potential to astrophysical neutrino sources. The sensitivity and discovery potential are calculated using IceCube’s internal likelihood framework for the original and modified datasets.