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Description
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer scale
Cherenkov light detector that also searches for signatures of particles
beyond the standard including fractionally charged particles, which directly
and indirectly produce light.
The development of a new trigger for faint signatures of exotic particles is presented. This new trigger includes the analysis of isolated single hits that so far are not included in
any IceCube trigger, because a large fraction of them originates from
well understood noise sources. For simulated faint exotic signatures
these isolated single hits become the dominant hit type. Four variables aim to remove detector noise and contributions from too bright signatures.
The improvement in signal efficiency and the estimated trigger rate for different configurations will be presented.
