TY - JOUR
T1 - ?spaceSiM
T2 - 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019
AU - Krizmanic, John F.
AU - Akaike, Yosui
AU - Bergman, Douglas R.
AU - Eser, Johannes
AU - Patel, Sameer
AU - Reno, Mary Hall
AU - Romero-Wolf, Andrés
AU - Sarazin, Fred
AU - Venters, Tonia M.
AU - Anchordoqui, Luis
AU - Mackovjak, Simon
AU - Olinto, Angela V.
AU - Wiencke, Lawrence
AU - Wissel, Stephanie
AU - Reustle, Alexander
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by NASA grants 80NSSC19K0626 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 80NSSC19K0460 at the Colorado School of Mines, 80NSSC19K0484 at the University of Iowa, and 80NSSC19K0485 at the Univesity of Utah, 80NSSC18K0464 at Lehman College, and 17-APRA17-0066 at NASA/GSFC and JPL.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - We describe a new comprehensive, end-to-end simulation package for the modeling of the extensive air shower (EAS) signals from very-high energy (above a PeV) cosmic neutrinos applicable to sub-orbital and space-based observations. The goal is to provide an efficient and practical cosmic neutrino EAS signal generation modeling package to the community that will provide a standard to gauge the neutrino measurement performance of these experiments and aid in their development. The modeling will be performed in such a way to easily be used to provide the neutrino-induced EAS signals delivered to a specific altitude for a given instrumental field-of-view and orientation. In this paper, we discuss the modeling of tau neutrino interactions inside the Earth, propagating the t-leptons into the atmosphere, modeling the decays, forming composite EASs, generating the air fluorescence, Cherenkov, and radio signals, and the propagation through the atmosphere. Future work on the modeling of atmospheric transmission and scattering effects will include consideration of the uncertainties and more robust modeling of atmospheric and UHECR backgrounds. Additionally, the framework will allow for the calculation of the sky coverage, the pointing requirements for target-of-opportunity follow up observations of transients, and the inclusion of different neutrino interaction cross-sections to allow for the modeling of non-standard physical processes.
AB - We describe a new comprehensive, end-to-end simulation package for the modeling of the extensive air shower (EAS) signals from very-high energy (above a PeV) cosmic neutrinos applicable to sub-orbital and space-based observations. The goal is to provide an efficient and practical cosmic neutrino EAS signal generation modeling package to the community that will provide a standard to gauge the neutrino measurement performance of these experiments and aid in their development. The modeling will be performed in such a way to easily be used to provide the neutrino-induced EAS signals delivered to a specific altitude for a given instrumental field-of-view and orientation. In this paper, we discuss the modeling of tau neutrino interactions inside the Earth, propagating the t-leptons into the atmosphere, modeling the decays, forming composite EASs, generating the air fluorescence, Cherenkov, and radio signals, and the propagation through the atmosphere. Future work on the modeling of atmospheric transmission and scattering effects will include consideration of the uncertainties and more robust modeling of atmospheric and UHECR backgrounds. Additionally, the framework will allow for the calculation of the sky coverage, the pointing requirements for target-of-opportunity follow up observations of transients, and the inclusion of different neutrino interaction cross-sections to allow for the modeling of non-standard physical processes.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85086255510
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 358
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 1 August 2019
ER -