Prometheus: An Open-Source Neutrino Telescope Simulation
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| author | Lazar, Jeffrey Meighen-Berger, Stephan Haack, Christian Kim, David Giner, Santiago Argüelles, Carlos A. |
| author_facet | Lazar, Jeffrey Meighen-Berger, Stephan Haack, Christian Kim, David Giner, Santiago Argüelles, Carlos A. |
| contents | Neutrino telescopes are gigaton-scale neutrino detectors comprised of individual light-detection units. Though constructed from simple building blocks, they have opened a new window to the Universe and are able to probe center-of-mass energies that are comparable to those of collider experiments. \prometheus{} is a new, open-source simulation tailored for this kind of detector. Our package, which is written in a combination of \texttt{C++} and \texttt{Python} provides a balance of ease of use and performance and allows the user to simulate a neutrino telescope with arbitrary geometry deployed in ice or water. \prometheus{} simulates the neutrino interactions in the volume surrounding the detector, computes the light yield of the hadronic shower and the out-going lepton, propagates the photons in the medium, and records their arrival times and position in user-defined regions. Finally, \prometheus{} events are serialized into a \texttt{parquet} file, which is a compact and interoperational file format that allows prompt access to the events for further analysis. |
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| spellingShingle | Prometheus: An Open-Source Neutrino Telescope Simulation Lazar, Jeffrey Meighen-Berger, Stephan Haack, Christian Kim, David Giner, Santiago Argüelles, Carlos A. High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Neutrino telescopes are gigaton-scale neutrino detectors comprised of individual light-detection units. Though constructed from simple building blocks, they have opened a new window to the Universe and are able to probe center-of-mass energies that are comparable to those of collider experiments. \prometheus{} is a new, open-source simulation tailored for this kind of detector. Our package, which is written in a combination of \texttt{C++} and \texttt{Python} provides a balance of ease of use and performance and allows the user to simulate a neutrino telescope with arbitrary geometry deployed in ice or water. \prometheus{} simulates the neutrino interactions in the volume surrounding the detector, computes the light yield of the hadronic shower and the out-going lepton, propagates the photons in the medium, and records their arrival times and position in user-defined regions. Finally, \prometheus{} events are serialized into a \texttt{parquet} file, which is a compact and interoperational file format that allows prompt access to the events for further analysis. |
| title | Prometheus: An Open-Source Neutrino Telescope Simulation |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14526 |