@article{13f8432fec6d4885b681a659f64c6daf,
title = "NuRadioMC: simulating the radio emission of neutrinos from interaction to detector",
abstract = "NuRadioMC is a Monte Carlo framework designed to simulate ultra-high energy neutrino detectors that rely on the radio detection method. This method exploits the radio emission generated in the electromagnetic component of a particle shower following a neutrino interaction. NuRadioMC simulates everything from the neutrino interaction in a medium, the subsequent Askaryan radio emission, the propagation of the radio signal to the detector and finally the detector response. NuRadioMC is designed as a modern, modular Python-based framework, combining flexibility in detector design with user-friendliness. It includes a state-of-the-art event generator, an improved modelling of the radio emission, a revisited approach to signal propagation and increased flexibility and precision in the detector simulation. This paper focuses on the implemented physics processes and their implications for detector design. A variety of models and parameterizations for the radio emission of neutrino-induced showers are compared and reviewed. Comprehensive examples are used to discuss the capabilities of the code and different aspects of instrumental design decisions.",
author = "C. Glaser and D. Garc{\'i}a-Fern{\'a}ndez and A. Nelles and J. Alvarez-Mu{\~n}iz and Barwick, {S. W.} and Besson, {D. Z.} and Clark, {B. A.} and A. Connolly and C. Deaconu and {de Vries}, {K. D.} and Hanson, {J. C.} and B. Hokanson-Fasig and R. Lahmann and U. Latif and Kleinfelder, {S. A.} and C. Persichilli and Y. Pan and C. Pfendner and I. Plaisier and D. Seckel and J. Torres and S. Toscano and {van Eijndhoven}, N. and A. Vieregg and C. Welling and T. Winchen and Wissel, {S. A.}",
note = "Funding Information: This article and NuRadioMC itself would not exist without the constructive spirit of the InIceMC working group of the ARA and ARIANNA collaborations. We acknowledge funding from the German research foundation (DFG) under grant GL 914/1-1 (CG) and grant NE 2031/2-1 (DGF, AN, IP, and CW). JAM is supported by Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a, Industria y Competitividad (FPA 2017-85114-P), Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2017/07), Feder Funds, RENATA Red Nacional Tem{\'a}tica de Astropart{\'i}culas (FPA2015-68783-REDT) and Mar{\'i}a de Maeztu Unit of Excellence (MDM-2016-0692). We are grateful to the U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, the U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division (grant NSF-1607719) and the U.S. Department of Energy (SWB and CP). BAC thanks the National Science Foundation for support through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award DGE-1343012. AC acknowledges funding from the NSF CAREER award 28820 and NSF award 49285. We acknowledge Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS and FWO) (ST and NvE), the FWO programme for International Research Infrastructure, and funds from the ERC-StG (No. 805486) of the European Research Council (KDdV). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Author(s).",
year = "2020",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7612-8",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "80",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "2",
}