Validation Plots from the Mainland ANITA Simulation Stephen Hoover 9 April 2005 ANITA Collaboration Meeting UCI

Introduction The UCLA Monte Carlo has numerous components – do each of them work correctly? To be sure that they do, we’ve got to take a look. These are pictures of the inner workings of the Monte Carlo.

Location of Interactions

Depth of detected interactions  Depth of detected interactions at 1020 eV  Depth of detected interactions at 1018.5 eV

Surface Distance of Interactions  Includes strong phase space effects  Phase space effects removed

Typical Event Received at the Antenna

Angle of RF with Antenna Getting Maximum Signal

Surface Distance and Angle with Antenna

Snell’s Law

RF from a Single Neutrino Volts / Meter

Further Reading S. Hoover, A. Connolly, and D. Saltzberg, Anita Note #32, “Validation Plots from a Simulation of the ANITA Experiment” A. Connolly, Anita Note #17, “Summary of a Simulation of the ANITA Detector” A. Connolly, Anita Note #33, “Simulation of the Anita-lite Detector Towards an Anita-lite Limit”