The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual

Andreopoulos, Costas; Barry, Christopher; Dytman, Steve; Gallagher, Hugh; Golan, Tomasz; Hatcher, Robert; Perdue, Gabriel; Yarba, Julia

doi:10.2172/1264018

Title: The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual

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GENIE is a suite of products for the experimental neutrino physics community. This suite includes i) a modern software framework for implementing neutrino event generators, a state-of-the-art comprehensive physics model and tools to support neutrino interaction simulation for realistic experimental setups (the Generator product), ii) extensive archives of neutrino, charged-lepton and hadron scattering data and software to produce a comprehensive set of data/MC comparisons (the Comparisons product), and iii) a generator tuning framework and fitting applications (the Tuning product). This book provides the definite guide for the GENIE Generator: It presents the software architecture and a detailed description of its physics model and official tunes. In addition, it provides a rich set of data/MC comparisons that characterise the physics performance of GENIE. Detailed step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure the Generator, run its applications and analyze its outputs are also included.

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Andreopoulos, Costas ^[1]; Barry, Christopher ^[2]; Dytman, Steve ^[3]; Gallagher, Hugh ^[4]; Golan, Tomasz ^[5]; Hatcher, Robert ^[6]; Perdue, Gabriel ^[6]; Yarba, Julia ^[6]

Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL). Particle Physics Dept.
Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1264018

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1510.05494; FERMILAB-FN-1004-CD
1398588

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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                    Andreopoulos, Costas, Barry, Christopher, Dytman, Steve, Gallagher, Hugh, Golan, Tomasz, Hatcher, Robert, Perdue, Gabriel, and Yarba, Julia. The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Andreopoulos, Costas, Barry, Christopher, Dytman, Steve, Gallagher, Hugh, Golan, Tomasz, Hatcher, Robert, Perdue, Gabriel, & Yarba, Julia. The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1264018

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                    Andreopoulos, Costas, Barry, Christopher, Dytman, Steve, Gallagher, Hugh, Golan, Tomasz, Hatcher, Robert, Perdue, Gabriel, and Yarba, Julia. 2015.  
        "The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1264018.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1264018.

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