Publications (25)
Radio-detection of neutrino-induced air showers: the influence of topography
Valentin Decoene, Nicolas Renault-Tinacci, Olivier Martineau-Huynh +6
Neutrinos of astrophysical origin could be detected through the electromagnetic radiation of the particle showers induced in the atmosphere by their interaction in the Earth. This…
Targeting 100-PeV tau neutrino detection with an array of phased and high-gain reconstruction antennas
Stephanie Wissel, Andrew Zeolla, Cosmin Deaconu +20
Neutrinos at ultrahigh energies can originate both from interactions of cosmic rays at their acceleration sites and through cosmic-ray interactions as they propagate through the un…
The PUMAS library
Valentin Niess
The PUMAS library is a transport engine for muon and tau leptons in matter. It can operate with a configurable level of details, from a fast deterministic CSDA mode to a detailed M…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection
Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Kumiko Kotera, Didier Charrier +18
High-energy neutrino astronomy will probe the working of the most violent phenomena in the Universe. The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) project consists of an arr…
Radio Morphing: towards a fast computation of the radio signal from air showers
Anne Zilles, Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Kumiko Kotera +6
Over the last years, radio detection has matured to become a competitive method for the detection of air showers. Arrays of thousands of antennas are now envisioned for the detecti…
Radio Morphing - towards a full parametrisation of the radio signal from air showers
Anne Zilles, Didier Charrier, Kumiko Kotera +6
Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a detection technique for ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere with energ…
Towards the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): the GRANDProto300 and GRAND@Auger prototypes
GRAND Collaboration, Jaime Ãlvarez-Muniz, Rafael Alves Batista +118
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposed multi-messenger observatory of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) particles of cosmic origin. Its main goal is to find the l…
GRANDlib: A simulation pipeline for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND)
GRAND Collaboration, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +112
The operation of upcoming ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino radio-detection experiments, like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND), poses signif…
The Hybrid Elevated Radio Observatory for Neutrinos (HERON) Project
Kumiko Kotera, Ingo Allekotte, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz +10
Measuring ultra-high energy neutrinos, with energies above eV, is the next frontier of the emerging multi-messenger era. Their detection requires building a large-scale d…
TURTLE: A C library for an optimistic stepping through a topography
Valentin Niess, Anne Barnoud, Cristina Cârloganu +1
TURTLE is a C library providing utilities allowing to navigate through a topography described by a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The library has been primarily designed for the Mo…
Modelling theoretical uncertainties in phenomenological analyses for particle physics
Jérôme Charles, Sébastien Descotes-Genon, Valentin Niess +1
The determination of the fundamental parameters of the Standard Model (and its extensions) is often limited by the presence of statistical and theoretical uncertainties. We present…
Optimizing HERON for 100 PeV Neutrino Detection
Andrew Zeolla, Ingo Allekotte, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz +10
The Hybrid Elevated Radio Observatory for Neutrinos (HERON) is designed to target the astrophysical flux of Earth-skimming tau neutrinos at 100 PeV. HERON consists of multiple comp…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2023)
GRAND Collaboration, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +96
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses la…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Present and Perspectives
Ke Fang, Jaime Ãlvarez-Muñiz, Rafael Alves Batista +33
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) aims at detecting ultra-high energy extraterrestrial neutrinos via the extensive air showers induced by the decay of tau lepton…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection
Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Mauricio Bustamante, Washington Carvalho +19
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned array of ~200 000 radio antennas deployed over ~200 000 km2 in a mountainous site. It aims primarly at detecting h…
Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV
Roshan Mammen Abraham, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Carlos A. Argüelles +63
Tau neutrinos are the least studied particle in the Standard Model. This whitepaper discusses the current and expected upcoming status of tau neutrino physics with attention to the…
Backward Monte-Carlo applied to muon transport
Valentin Niess, Anne Barnoud, Cristina Carloganu +1
We discuss a backward Monte-Carlo technique for muon transport problem, with emphasis on its application in muography. Backward Monte-Carlo allows exclusive sampling of a final sta…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Science and Design
GRAND Collaboration, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz, Rafael Alves Batista +48
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned large-scale observatory of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic particles, with energies exceeding 10^8 GeV. Its goal is…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2025)
Jaime Ãlvarez-Muñiz, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +133
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses la…
Alouette: Yet another encapsulated TAUOLA, but revertible
Valentin Niess
We present an algorithm for simulating reverse Monte Carlo decays given an existing forward Monte Carlo decay engine. This algorithm is implemented in the Alouette library, a TAUOL…
Goupil: A Monte Carlo engine for the backward transport of low-energy gamma-rays
Valentin Niess, Kinson Vernet, Luca Terray
Goupil is a software library designed for the Monte Carlo transport of low-energy gamma-rays, such as those emitted from radioactive isotopes. The library is distributed as a Pytho…
DANTON: a Monte-Carlo sampler of from interacting with the Earth
Valentin Niess, Olivier Martineau-Huynh
A preliminary version (v0.2.1) of the DANTON Monte-Carlo package is presented. DANTON allows the exclusive sampling of (decaying) generated by interactions with the Ea…
Autonomous radiodetection of air showers with the TREND50 antenna array
Didier Charrier, Krijn D. de Vries, Quanbu Gou +11
TREND50 is a radio detection setup of 50 self-triggered antennas working in the 50-100MHz frequency range and deployed in a radio-quiet valley of the Tianshan mountains (China). TR…
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2024)
Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Teresa Bister +121
This is an index of the contributions by the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration to the 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino De…
Radio Morphing - towards a fast computation of the radio signal from air-showers
Anne Zilles, Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Kumiko Kotera +4
Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a promising detection technique for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. Very large or dense an…