https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6971-5
Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory
NuRadioReco: a reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
2
DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738, Zeuthen, Germany
3
Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
* e-mail: christian.glaser@uci.edu
Received:
9
March
2019
Accepted:
21
May
2019
Published online:
1
June
2019
While the radio detection of cosmic rays has advanced to a standard method in astroparticle physics, the radio detection of neutrinos is just about to start its full bloom. The successes of pilot-arrays have to be accompanied by the development of modern and flexible software tools to ensure rapid progress in reconstruction algorithms and data processing. We present NuRadioReco as such a modern Python-based data analysis tool. It includes a suitable data-structure, a database-implementation of a time-dependent detector, modern browser-based data visualization tools, and fully separated analysis modules. We describe the framework and examples, as well as new reconstruction algorithms to obtain the full three-dimensional electric field from distributed antennas which is needed for high-precision energy reconstruction of particle showers.
© The Author(s), 2019
