Getting Started

Welcome to Prometheus 🔥

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus is a Python-based package for simulating neutrino telescopes. It balances ease of use with performance and supports simulations with arbitrary detector geometries deployed in ice or water.

Prometheus simulates neutrino interactions in the volume surrounding the detector, computes the light yield of hadronic showers and the outgoing leptons, propagates photons in the medium, and records their arrival times and positions in user-defined regions. Events are then serialized to Parquet files, a compact and interoperable format that enables efficient access for downstream analysis.

For a detailed description of the package, see arXiv:2304.14526.

Authors

1. Jeffrey Lazar
2. Stephan Meighen-Berger
3. Christian Haack
4. David Kim
5. Santiago Giner
6. Carlos Argüelles Delgado

Terms of Use

Prometheus is open-source. You are free to copy, modify, and distribute it with attribution under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.