The GENIE neutrino Monte Carlo generator

被引:637
作者
Andreopoulos, C. [1 ]
Bell, A. [2 ]
Bhattacharya, D. [2 ]
Cavanna, F. [3 ]
Dobson, J. [4 ]
Dytman, S. [2 ]
Gallagher, H. [5 ]
Guzowski, P. [4 ]
Hatcher, R. [6 ]
Kehayias, P. [5 ]
Meregaglia, A. [7 ,8 ]
Naples, D. [2 ]
Pearce, G. [1 ]
Rubbia, A. [7 ]
Whalley, M. [9 ]
Yang, T. [10 ]
机构
[1] STFC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[2] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Phys, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[3] Univ Aquila, Dept Phys, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[4] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, Dept Phys, London SW7 2BW, England
[5] Tufts Univ, Dept Phys, Medford, MA 02155 USA
[6] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[7] ETH, Dept Phys, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[8] IPHC Strasbourg, F-67037 Strasbourg 2, France
[9] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Durham DH1 3LE, England
[10] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94309 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
Neutrino; Monte Carlo generator; Neutrino interaction; Neutrino-induced hadronization; Intra-nuclear hadron transport; Rescattering; GENIE; AGKY; INTRANUKE; CHARGED-CURRENT INTERACTIONS; STRANGE-PARTICLE-PRODUCTION; TOTAL CROSS-SECTIONS; SINGLE-PION-PRODUCTION; MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTIONS; HADRON-PRODUCTION; NU-MU; ELECTRON-SCATTERING; PHYSICS SIMULATION; LEPTON SCATTERING;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2009.12.009
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
GENIE [1] is anew neutrino event generator for the experimental neutrino physics community. The goal of the project is to develop a 'canonical' neutrino interaction physics Monte Carlo whose validity extends to all nuclear targets and neutrino flavors from MeV to PeV energy scales. Currently, emphasis is on the few-GeV energy range, the challenging boundary between the non-perturbative and perturbative regimes, which is relevant for the current and near future long-baseline precision neutrino experiments using accelerator-made beams. The design of the package addresses many challenges unique to neutrino simulations and supports the full life-cycle of simulation and generator-related analysis tasks. GENIE is a large-scale software system, consisting of similar to 120000 lines of C + + code, featuring a modern object-oriented design and extensively validated physics content. The first official physics release of GENIE was made available in August 2007, and at the time of the writing of this article, the latest available version was v2.4.4. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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