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Publications (25)

astro-ph.IM2020

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

physics.comp-ph2022

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…

astro-ph.HE2015

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…

astro-ph.IM2019

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…

astro-ph.IM2018

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

Towards the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): the GRANDProto300 and GRAND@Auger prototypes

GRAND Collaboration, Jaime Álvarez-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…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

physics.comp-ph2019

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…

hep-ph2017

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

hep-ex2024

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…

astro-ph.IM2017

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Present and Perspectives

Ke Fang, Jaime Álvarez-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…

astro-ph.IM2017

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…

hep-ph2022

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…

physics.comp-ph2017

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…

astro-ph.HE2019

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2025)

Jaime Álvarez-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…

physics.comp-ph2022

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…

physics.comp-ph2025

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…

physics.comp-ph2018

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…

astro-ph.HE2019

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

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…

astro-ph.IM2018

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…