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Calibration and Reconstruction

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This chapter gives an overview of the calibration chain used in the MINOS detectors and a summary of the simulation packages used to generate simulated neutrino events to compare to data.

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Timmons, A.M. (2017). Calibration and Reconstruction. In: Search for Sterile Neutrinos with the MINOS Long-Baseline Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63769-3_3

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