A Fresh Approach to Forecasting in Astroparticle Physics and Dark Matter Searches

Understand

We present a toolbox of new techniques and concepts for the efficient forecasting of experimental sensitivities.

• These are applicable to a large range of scenarios in (astro-)particle physics, and based on the Fisher information formalism.
• Fisher information provides an answer to the question what is the maximum extractable information from a given observation?.
• It is a common tool for the forecasting of experimental sensitivities in many branches of science, but rarely used in astroparticle physics or searches for particle dark matter.