nuradiomc 2.1.5

A Monte Carlo simulation package for radio neutrino detectors and reconstruction framework for radio detectors of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic-rays.

NuRadioMC/NuRadioReco

A Monte Carlo simulation package for radio neutrino detectors and reconstruction framework for radio detectors of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic-rays

The documentation can be found at https://nu-radio.github.io/NuRadioMC/main.html Please visit the wiki at https://github.com/nu-radio/NuRadioMC/wiki for additional documentation.

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If you're using NuRadioMC for your research, please cite

• C. Glaser, D. Garcia-Fernandez, A. Nelles et al., "NuRadioMC: Simulating the radio emission of neutrinos from interaction to detector", European Physics Journal C 80, 77 (2020), arXiv:1906.01670

and for the detector simulation and event reconstruction part

• C. Glaser, A. Nelles, I. Plaisier, C. Welling et al., "NuRadioReco: A reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors", Eur. Phys. J. C (2019) 79: 464, arXiv:1903.07023

NuRadioMC is continuously improved and new features are being added. The following papers document new features (in reverse chronological order):

• B. Oeyen, I. Plaisier, A. Nelles, C. Glaser, T. Winchen, "Effects of firn ice models on radio neutrino simulations using a RadioPropa ray tracer", PoS(ICRC2021)1027 (adds numerical ray tracer RadioPropa to allow signal propagation in arbitrary 3D index-of-refraction profiles)

• C. Glaser D. García-Fernández and A. Nelles, "Prospects for neutrino-flavor physics with in-ice radio detectors", PoS(ICRC2021)1231 (generalizes NuRadioMC to simulate the radio emission from any number of in-ice showers including their interference)

• D. García-Fernández, C. Glaser and A. Nelles, “The signatures of secondary leptons in radio-neutrino detectors in ice”, Phys. Rev. D 102, 083011, arXiv:2003.13442 (addition of secondary interactions of muons and taus)

If you would like to contribute, please contact @cg-laser or @anelles for permissions to work on NuRadioMC. We work with pull requests only that can be merged after review. Also please visit https://github.com/nu-radio/NuRadioMC/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

NuRadioMC is used in an increasing number of studies. To get an overview for what NuRadioMC can be used for, please have a look at the following publications or see here:

• S. Stjärnholm, O. Ericsson and C. Glaser, "Neutrino direction and flavor reconstruction from radio detector data using deep convolutional neural networks", PoS(ICRC2021)1055
• S. Hallmann et al., "Sensitivity studies for the IceCube-Gen2 radio array", PoS(ICRC2021)1183
• Y. Pan, "A neural network based UHE neutrino reconstruction method for the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA)", PoS(ICRC2021)1157
• A. Anker et al., "A novel trigger based on neural networks for radio neutrino detectors", PoS(ICRC2021)1074
• L. Zhao et al., "Polarization Reconstruction of Cosmic Rays with the ARIANNA Neutrino Radio Detector", PoS(ICRC2021)1156
• J. Beise et al. "Development of an in-situ calibration device of firn properties for Askaryan neutrino detectors", PoS(ICRC2021)1069
• I. Plaisier et al., "Direction reconstruction for the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland", PoS(ICRC2021)1026
• C. Welling et al., "Energy reconstruction with the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G)", PoS(ICRC2021)1033
• C. Glaser, S. McAleer, P. Baldi and S.W. Barwick, "Deep learning reconstruction of the neutrino energy with a shallow Askaryan detector", PoS(ICRC2021)1051
• S. Barwick et al., "Capabilities of ARIANNA: Neutrino Pointing Resolution and Implications for Future Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Astronomy", PoS(ICRC2021)1151
• S. Barwick et al., "Science case and detector concept for ARIANNA high energy neutrino telescope at Moore's Bay, Antarctica", PoS(ICRC2021)1190
• RNO-G collaboration, "Reconstructing the neutrino energy for in-ice radio detectors : A study for the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G)", arXiv:2107.02604
• Ice-Cube-Gen2 collaboration, "IceCube-Gen2: The Window to the Extreme Universe", J.Phys.G 48 (2021) 6, 060501, arXiv:2008.04323
• C. Welling et al., "Reconstructing non-repeating radio pulses with Information Field Theory", JCAP 04 (2021) 071, arXiv:2102.00258
• C. Glaser, S. Barwick, "An improved trigger for Askaryan radio detectors", JINST 16 (2021) 05, T05001, arXiv:2011.12997
• RNO-G collaboration, "Design and Sensitivity of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)", JINST 16 (2021) 03, P03025 arXiv:2010.12279
• ARIANNA collaboration, "Probing the angular and polarization reconstruction of the ARIANNA detector at the South Pole", JINST 15 (2020) 09, P09039, arXiv:2006.03027