Extended Data Fig. 8: Effective areas of TRIDENT for muon neutrino charged-current events.
From: A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean
Top panel: effective area shown as a function of primary neutrino energy and zenith angle in TRIDENT. Bottom panel: effective area shown as a function of primary neutrino energy at three zenith bands. At an energy of ~ 100TeV, the effective area for up-going events is expected to reach 5 × 102m2. Only events with reconstructed angular error less than 6 degrees are used in these effective area calculations. The neutrino-nucleon CC interaction vertex is generated around detector via Pythia875,76. The muons are propagated to the detector by PROPOSAL77, using CORSIKA8 simulation framework78. For particles arriving to the detector, Geant4 simulation is used for particle simulation and OptiX for Cherenkov photon generation and propagation79.
