The GENIE neutrino Monte Carlo generator

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 614, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 87-104

  Andreopoulos, C ^a   Bell, A ^b   Bhattacharya, D ^b   Cavanna, F ^c   Dobson, J ^d   Dytman, S ^b   Gallagher, H ^e   Guzowski, P ^d   Hatcher, R ^f   Kehayias, P ^e   Meregaglia, A ^g,h   Naples, D ^b   Pearce, G ^a   Rubbia, A ^g   Whalley, M ⁱ   Yang, T ^j  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

ⁱ DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

AGKY; GENIE; Intra nuclear hadron transport; INTRANUKE; Monte Carlo generator; Neutrino; Neutrino interaction; Neutrino induced hadronization; Rescattering

Indexed keywords

C++ CODES; ENERGY RANGES; ENERGY SCALE; EVENT GENERATORS; EXPERIMENTAL NEUTRINO PHYSICS; HADRONIZATION; LARGE-SCALE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO GENERATOR; NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS; NUCLEAR TARGETS; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; RESCATTERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HADRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TESTBEDS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 76449108263     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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