SHINIE: Simulation of High Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Earth

✍ Scribed by Ming-Huey A. Huang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 209 KB
• Volume: 175-176
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.11.055

✦ Synopsis

SHINIE is acronym for Simulation of High-energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Earth, which is a Monte-Carlo simulation code for the interactions and propagations of neutrinos and leptons inside the Earth at energy greater than 10 14 eV. This code can be used for underground or above-ground neutrino telescopes. Since 2004, we had made several major updates, which include stochastic energy loss for τ and μ, modification for underground detector, addition of νµ, νe, μ, and electron, and a new material salt for simulation of underground salt dome neutrino detector. Details of this code are described here. A benchmark test of tau lepton flux passing through 100 km of standard rock are performed and concluded that all processes behave properly and consistent with previous versions.