Echidna Strategy Document

Goals

Before Phil leaves

• Class that takes care of 0nu double beta
• Test consistency with Andy's limits, Nasim's code and snopy
• Class that takes care of Majorons
• Test consistency with KamLAND-Zen
• Write first standard run script (Ed)
• HDF5 compatibility (Phil)

By collaboration meeting

• Class that takes care of solar signal fitting (Stefanie)
• Class that takes care of energy resolution fitting (Evelina)

After collaboration meeting

• Effect of different systematics on sensitivity

  • Effect of Gaussian tails (James)
  • Positional reconstruction
  • Leaching effects

• How well can we reject and constrain pileups

• Reproduce Alex Wright's tail study for Te

• General spectral fitting

• Keep it modular