TY - JOUR
T1 - Neutrino propagation in the Earth and emerging charged leptons with nuPyProp
AU - Garg, Diksha
AU - Patel, Sameer
AU - Reno, Mary Hall
AU - Reustle, Alexander
AU - Akaike, Yosui
AU - Anchordoqui, Luis A
AU - Bergman, Douglas R
AU - Buckland, Isaac
AU - Cummings, Austin L
AU - Eser, Johannes
AU - Garcia, Fred
AU - Guépin, Claire
AU - Heibges, Tobias
AU - Ludwig, Andrew
AU - Krizmanic, John F
AU - Mackovjak, Simon
AU - Mayotte, Eric
AU - Mayotte, Sonja
AU - Olinto, Angela V
AU - Paul, Thomas C
AU - Romero-Wolf, Andrés
AU - Sarazin, Frédéric
AU - Venters, Tonia M
AU - Wiencke, Lawrence
AU - Wissel, Stephanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Ultra-high-energy neutrinos serve as messengers of some of the highest energy astrophysical environments. Given that neutrinos are neutral and only interact via weak interactions, neutrinos can emerge from sources, traverse astronomical distances, and point back to their origins. Their weak interactions require large target volumes for neutrino detection. Using the Earth as a neutrino converter, terrestrial, sub-orbital, and satellite-based instruments are able to detect signals of neutrino-induced extensive air showers. In this paper, we describe the software code nuPyProp that simulates tau neutrino and muon neutrino interactions in the Earth and predicts the spectrum of the τ-leptons and muons that emerge. The nuPyProp outputs are lookup tables of charged lepton exit probabilities and energies that can be used directly or as inputs to the nuSpaceSim code designed to simulate optical and radio signals from extensive air showers induced by the emerging charged leptons. We describe the inputs to the code, demonstrate its flexibility and show selected results for τ-lepton and muon exit probabilities and energy distributions. The nuPyProp code is open source, available on github.
AB - Ultra-high-energy neutrinos serve as messengers of some of the highest energy astrophysical environments. Given that neutrinos are neutral and only interact via weak interactions, neutrinos can emerge from sources, traverse astronomical distances, and point back to their origins. Their weak interactions require large target volumes for neutrino detection. Using the Earth as a neutrino converter, terrestrial, sub-orbital, and satellite-based instruments are able to detect signals of neutrino-induced extensive air showers. In this paper, we describe the software code nuPyProp that simulates tau neutrino and muon neutrino interactions in the Earth and predicts the spectrum of the τ-leptons and muons that emerge. The nuPyProp outputs are lookup tables of charged lepton exit probabilities and energies that can be used directly or as inputs to the nuSpaceSim code designed to simulate optical and radio signals from extensive air showers induced by the emerging charged leptons. We describe the inputs to the code, demonstrate its flexibility and show selected results for τ-lepton and muon exit probabilities and energy distributions. The nuPyProp code is open source, available on github.
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U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/041
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/041
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147173954
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2023
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 1
M1 - 041
ER -