Propagating Neutrinos and Charged Leptons Inside the Earth using nuPyProp
ORAL
Abstract
The design and development of new balloon and sub-orbital missions capable of detecting upward going extensive air showers caused by neutrino interactions inside the Earth rely on simulations to assess instrument sensitivity to UHE neutrinos. We introduce nuPyProp, which is a simple to use, Monte Carlo package designed to simulate and model UHE neutrino interactions and charged lepton energy loss inside the Earth. nuPyProp is a part of the nuSpaceSim simulation package, and it primarily generates lookup tables for $\nu_\tau\to \tau$ and $\nu_\mu\to \mu$ propagation. It allows for the user to choose from a subset of neutrino cross-section models and charged lepton photonuclear energy loss models, along with the flexibility to create \& use custom models for propagation. I will describe the simulation framework and discuss the impacts of using different models and two different energy loss propagation techniques - stochastic \& continuous on charged lepton exit probabilities and their outgoing energy distributions.
*This work is supported by NASA grants 80NSSC19K0626 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 80NSSC19K0460 at the Colorado School of Mines, 80NSSC19K0484 at the University of Iowa, and 80NSSC19K0485 at the University of Utah, 80NSSC18K0464 at Lehman College, and under proposal 17-APRA17-0066 at NASA/GSFC and JPL.
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