Calculation of oscillation probabilities of atmospheric neutrinos using nuCraft
Abstract
NuCraft (nucraft.hepforge.org) is an open-source Python project that calculates neutrino oscillation probabilities for neutrinos from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere for their propagation through Earth. The solution is obtained by numerically solving the Schrödinger equation. The code supports arbitrary numbers of neutrino flavors including additional sterile neutrinos, CP violation, arbitrary mass hierarchies, matter effects with a configurable continuous Earth model, and takes into account the production height distribution of neutrinos in the Earth's atmosphere.
- Publication:
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Computer Physics Communications
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.07.010
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1409.1387
- Bibcode:
- 2015CoPhC.197..185W
- Keywords:
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- Neutrino oscillation;
- Atmospheric neutrinos;
- Sterile neutrinos;
- NuCraft;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Physics - Computational Physics
- E-Print:
- submitted to Computer Physics Communications