论文标题
蒙特卡洛在水下中微子望远镜的蒙特卡洛模拟
Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope
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论文摘要
蒙特卡洛模拟是检查探测器响应并监视其性能的独特工具。对于深海中微子望远镜,除了对检测器的活动部分和物理事件的特征的可靠描述外,还必须考虑可能影响数据采集系统行为的环境条件的可变性,以产生现实的模拟事件集。在本文中,描述了用于在望远镜中产生中微子和宇宙射线签名的软件工具,并描述了代表自然环境和检测器效率的时间演变的策略。
Monte Carlo simulations are a unique tool to check the response of a detector and to monitor its performance. For a deep-sea neutrino telescope, the variability of the environmental conditions that can affect the behaviour of the data acquisition system must be considered, in addition to a reliable description of the active parts of the detector and of the features of physics events, in order to produce a realistic set of simulated events. In this paper, the software tools used to produce neutrino and cosmic ray signatures in the telescope and the strategy developed to represent the time evolution of the natural environment and of the detector efficiency are described.