HOU Reconstruction & Simulation (HOURS): A complete simulation and reconstruction package for very large volume underwater neutrino telescopes

The HOU Reconstruction & Simulation (HOURS) software package has been developed in order to study in detail the response of very large (km 3-scale) underwater neutrino telescopes. HOURS comprises a realistic simulation package of the detector response, including an accurate description of all th...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2011-01, Vol.626, p.S185-S187
Main Authors: Tsirigotis, A.G., Leisos, A., Tzamarias, S.E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Detectors
Event simulation
Neutrino telescope
Neutrinos
Packages
Reconstruction
Simulation
Telescopes
Track reconstruction
Tracking
Underwater
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Summary:The HOU Reconstruction & Simulation (HOURS) software package has been developed in order to study in detail the response of very large (km 3-scale) underwater neutrino telescopes. HOURS comprises a realistic simulation package of the detector response, including an accurate description of all the relevant physical processes, the production of signal and background as well as several analysis strategies for triggering and pattern recognition, event reconstruction, tracking and energy estimation. Furthermore, this package provides the tools for simulating calibration techniques as well as other studies to estimate the detector sensitivity to several neutrino sources. In this work we report on the structure and performance of the HOURS package.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.258