{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/prometheus-an-open-source-neutrino-telescope","title":"Prometheus: An Open-Source Neutrino Telescope Simulation","arxiv_id":"2304.14526","date":"2023-04-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jeffrey Lazar","Stephan Meighen-Berger","Christian Haack","David Kim","Santiago Giner","Carlos A. Argüelles"],"abstract":"Neutrino telescopes are gigaton-scale neutrino detectors comprised of individual light-detection units. Though constructed from simple building blocks, they have opened a new window to the Universe and are able to probe center-of-mass energies that are comparable to those of collider experiments. \\prometheus{} is a new, open-source simulation tailored for this kind of detector. Our package, which is written in a combination of \\texttt{C++} and \\texttt{Python} provides a balance of ease of use and performance and allows the user to simulate a neutrino telescope with arbitrary geometry deployed in ice or water. \\prometheus{} simulates the neutrino interactions in the volume surrounding the detector, computes the light yield of the hadronic shower and the out-going lepton, propagates the photons in the medium, and records their arrival times and position in user-defined regions. Finally, \\prometheus{} events are serialized into a \\texttt{parquet} file, which is a compact and interoperational file format that allows prompt access to the events for further analysis.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14526v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14526v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"prometheus-an-open-source-neutrino-telescope","repo_url":"https://github.com/harvard-neutrino/prometheus","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"jax","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"LGPL-2.1"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2304.14526","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2304.14526","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}