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NuHepMC: A standardized event record format for neutrino event generators
by Steven Gardiner, Joshua Isaacson, Luke Pickering
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Steven Gardiner |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13211v2 (pdf) |
| Code repository: | https://github.com/NuHepMC/Spec |
| Date submitted: | 2024-06-27 20:59 |
| Submitted by: | Gardiner, Steven |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Codebases |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Computational |
Abstract
Simulations of neutrino interactions are playing an increasingly important role in the pursuit of high-priority measurements for the field of particle physics. A significant technical barrier for efficient development of these simulations is the lack of a standard data format for representing individual neutrino scattering events. We propose and define such a universal format, named NuHepMC, as a common standard for the output of neutrino event generators. The NuHepMC format uses data structures and concepts from the HepMC3 event record library adopted by other subfields of high-energy physics. These are supplemented with an original set of conventions for generically representing neutrino interaction physics within the HepMC3 infrastructure.