Alexander Merle

The self-calibration effect and GLoBES

Abstract
In this talk, the interesting possibility, to use characteristic natural backgrounds in a neutrino experiment for the energy calibration, is presented. This will always be possible, if a background spectrum has a characteristic shape, i.e. cut-offs or steps at certain well-known energies. After an introduction and a short analytical derivation of the "CalEffect", two example applications are presented, namely reactor experiments and earth matter effects on supernova neutrinos, each of them with the corresponding modifications or features of the GLoBES software that have been used in the respective simulation.

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