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

2. 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.

3. Location of Interactions

4. Depth of detected interactions
 Depth of detected interactions at 1020 eV
 Depth of detected interactions
at eV

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

6. Typical Event Received at the Antenna

7. Angle of RF with Antenna Getting Maximum Signal

8. Surface Distance and Angle with Antenna

9. Snell’s Law

10. RF from a Single Neutrino
Volts / Meter

11. 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”