Eisvogel is a tool to calculate the time-domain antenna signal in a radio neutrino experiment. It uses an electrodynamic Green's function to efficiently propagate radiation through complex environments.
- All electrodynamic effects are included: no ray-tracing or geometric optics are assumed
- Supports arbitrary linear, inhomogeneous, anisotropic materials
- Interfaces to CORSIKA 8 to simulate signals from microscopic showers
Eisvogel is still under development. If you want to help, or just learn more about the project, feel free to contact us.
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON ..
make -j5
To also build the components for the calculation of the Green's function do (this requires MEEP to be installed and available)
cmake -DBUILD_MEEP=ON ..
If you want to build the C++ unit tests, add
cmake -DBUILD_TESTS=ON ..
Eisvogel can interface with Corsika 8. To enable, build Eisvogel as follows
cmake -DBUILD_CORSIKA=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/eisvogel-install ..
make -j5
make install
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- P. Windischhofer, W. Riegler, "Electrical signals induced in detectors by cosmic rays: a reciprocal look at electrodynamics", PoS(ICRC2021), 184
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