GRANDlib: A simulation pipeline for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND)
Creators: name: GRAND Collaboration
name: Batista, Rafael Alves
name: Benoit-Lévy, Aurélien
name: Bister, Teresa
name: Bohacova, Martina
name: Bustamante, Mauricio
name: Carvalho, Washington
name: Chen, Yiren
name: Cheng, LingMei
name: Chiche, Simon
name: Colley, Jean-Marc
name: Correa, Pablo
name: Laurenciu, Nicoleta Cucu
name: Dai, Zigao
name: de Almeida, Rogerio M.
name: de Errico, Beatriz
name: de Jong, Sijbrand
name: Neto, João R. T. de Mello
name: de Vries, Krijn D.
name: Decoene, Valentin
name: Denton, Peter B.
name: Duan, Bohao
name: Duan, Kaikai
name: Engel, Ralph
name: Erba, William
name: Fan, Yizhong
name: Ferrière, Arsène
name: Gou, QuanBu
name: Gu, Junhua
name: Guelfand, Marion
name: Guo, Jianhua
name: Guo, Yiqing
name: Guépin, Claire
name: Gülzow, Lukas
name: Haungs, Andreas
name: Havelka, Matej
name: He, Haoning
name: Hivon, Eric
name: Hu, Hongbo
name: Huang, Xiaoyuan
name: Huang, Yan
name: Huege, Tim
name: Jiang, Wen
name: Koirala, Ramesh
name: Kong, ChuiZheng
name: Kotera, Kumiko
name: Köhler, Jelena
name: Lago, Bruno L.
name: Lai, Zhisen
name: Coz, Sandra Le
name: Legrand, François
name: Leisos, Antonios
name: Li, Rui
name: Li, Xingyu
name: Li, YiFei
name: Liu, Cheng
name: Liu, Ruoyu
name: Liu, Wei
name: Ma, Pengxiong
name: Macias, Oscar
name: Magnard, Frédéric
name: Marcowith, Alexandre
name: Martineau-Huynh, Olivier
name: McKinley, Thomas
name: Minodier, Paul
name: Mitra, Pragati
name: Mostafá, Miguel
name: Murase, Kohta
name: Niess, Valentin
name: Nonis, Stavros
name: Ogio, Shoichi
name: Oikonomou, Foteini
name: Pan, Hongwei
name: Papageorgiou, Konstantinos
name: Pierog, Tanguy
name: Piotrowski, Lech Wiktor
name: Prunet, Simon
name: Qian, Xiangli
name: Roth, Markus
name: Sako, Takashi
name: Schoorlemmer, Harm
name: Szálas-Motesiczky, Dániel
name: Sławiński, Szymon
name: Tian, Xishui
name: Timmermans, Anne
name: Timmermans, Charles
name: Tobiska, Petr
name: Tsirigotis, Apostolos
name: Tueros, Matías
name: Vittakis, George
name: Wang, Hanrui
name: Wang, Jiale
name: Wang, Shen
name: Wang, Xiangyu
name: Wang, Xu
name: Wei, Daming
name: Wei, Feng
name: Wu, Xiangping
name: Wu, Xuefeng
name: Xu, Xin
name: Xu, Xing
name: Yang, Fufu
name: Yang, Lili
name: Yang, Xuan
name: Yuan, Qiang
name: Zarka, Philippe
name: Zeng, Houdun
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Zhang, Jianli
name: Zhang, Kewen
name: Zhang, Pengfei
name: Zhang, Qingchi
name: Zhang, Songbo
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Zhou, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 significant computational challenges involving the production of numerous simulations of particle showers and their detection, and a high data throughput. GRANDlib is an open-source software tool designed to meet these challenges. Its primary goal is to perform end-to-end simulations of the detector operation, from the interaction of ultra-high-energy particles, through -- by interfacing with external air-shower simulations -- the ensuing particle shower development and its radio emission, to its detection by antenna arrays and its processing by data-acquisition systems. Additionally, GRANDlib manages the visualization, storage, and retrieval of experimental and simulated data. We present an overview of GRANDlib to serve as the basis of future GRAND analyses.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, plus appendices; Matches published version