Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope

Albert A, Andre M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bissinger M, Boumaaza J, Bouta M, Bouwhuis MC, Branzas H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Cecchini S, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau TN, Cherkaoui El Moursli R, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coleiro A, Colomer-Molla M, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Diaz AF, De Wasseige G, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Domi A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, El Khayati N, Enzenhofer A, Ettahiri A, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filippini F, Fusco L, Gay P, Glotin H, Gozzini S, Graf K, Guidi C, Hallmann S, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Huang F, Illuminati G, James CW, De Jong M, De Jong P, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Khan-Chowdhury NR, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Le Breton R, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Lincetto M, Lopez-Coto D, Loucatos S, Manczak J, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martinez-Mora JA, Mazzou S, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moser M, Moussa A, Muller R, Nauta L, Navas S, Nezri E, Nuñez-Castiñeyra A, O'Fearraigh B, Organokov M, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Piattelli P, Poire C, Popa V, Pradier T, Randazzo N, Reck S, Riccobene G, Salesa F, Sanchez-Losa A, Samtleben DF, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schussler F, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Strandberg B, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Thakore T, Tingay SJ, Vallage B, Van Elewyck V, Versari F, Viola S, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zegarelli A, Zornoza JD, Zuñiga J (2021)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal

Book Volume: 2021

Article Number: A10

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/064

Abstract

Monte Carlo simulations are a unique tool to check the response of a detector and to monitor its performance. For a deep-sea neutrino telescope, the variability of the environmental conditions that can affect the behaviour of the data acquisition system must be considered, in addition to a reliable description of the active parts of the detector and of the features of physics events, in order to produce a realistic set of simulated events. In this paper, the software tools used to produce neutrino and cosmic ray signatures in the telescope and the strategy developed to represent the time evolution of the natural environment and of the detector efficiency are described.

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Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Mohammed V University (UMVA) / جامعة محمد الخامس‎ Morocco (MA) National Center for Scientific Research / Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) France (FR) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) / Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) FOM Foundation Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) National Center for Energy Science & Nuclear Technology Morocco (MA) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) UMR Géoazur - Campus Azur du CNRS France (FR) University of Toulon / Université de Toulon (UTLN) France (FR) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) Curtin University Australia (AU) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) FOM Foundation Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Curtin University Australia (AU)

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APA:

Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.J.,... Zuñiga, J. (2021). Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/064

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2021.1 (2021).

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