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nuSpaceSim: A Comprehensive Simulation Package for Modeling Extensive Air Shower Cherenkov and Radio Signals from Cosmic Neutrinos

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Abstract

nuSpaceSim is a comprehensive simulation built to model the optical and radio signals from extensive air showers (EAS) induced by cosmic neutrinos. It is designed to aid the community in the development of sub-orbital and space-based experiment, and v1.0, available via Github & pip on a HEASARC webpage, models the upward-moving EASs sourced from tau neutrino interactions within the Earth to determine diffuse flux sensitivity using user-defined input. nuPyProp is used as the Earth-emergent lepton generator and models the above a PeV neutrino interactions and energy loss. nuSpaceSim uses a vectorized, multi-tread Python implementation to efficiently simulate all aspects of the processes that lead to the EAS signal at a detector at a specific altitude, including modeling of the tau lepton decays and subsequent EAS, the air optical Cherenkov and radio signals, atmospheric propagation, and detector response while providing event-by-event analysis variables. Further development is in progress to model the sensitivity and sky-coverage for transient sources, improve models of the atmosphere (including clouds, aerosols, and ozone) and add enhancements to the optical EAS signals. The software and physics modeling in nuSpaceSim will be discussed along with example comparisons.

Publication: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1205, https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1203, https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.1031, https://doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0936

Presenters

  • John F Krizmanic

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Authors

  • John F Krizmanic

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Tonia M Venters

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Alex Reustle

    INNOVIM/NASA/GSFC

  • Yosui Akaike

    Waseda University

  • Hallsie H Reno

    University of Iowa

  • Douglas R Bergman

    University of Utah

  • Isaac Buckland

    University of Utah

  • Andres Romero-Wolf

    JPL

  • Andrew Ludwig

    University of Chicago

  • Angela V Olinto

    University of Chicago

  • Johannes Eser

    University of Chicago

  • Stephanie A Wissel

    Pennsylvania State University

  • Austin L Cummings

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Frederic Sarazin

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Luis A Anchordoqui

    The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • Thomas C Paul

    CUNY-Lehman College

  • Lawrence R Wiencke

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Simon Mackovjak

    Slovak Academy of Sciences

  • Fred Garcia

    University of Maryland, College Park

  • Eric W Mayotte

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Sonja Mayotte

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Claire Guepin

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center