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In this chapter the detector simulation is described. The simulation of the detector response to cosmic neutrinos and the atmospheric background is important for physics data analysis. It is used for detector performance estimation, especially, the neutrino direction resolution and energy reconstruction capability. Also, the simulation is used for data quality control and event selection optimisation. A key ingredient of simulations is the sea water optical properties at the ANTARES site which have been described in detail. Another important part of the simulation is photons detection by optical modules. Detailed GEANT simulation of the optical modules was performed and has been part of this thesis work. Finally, environmental optical background is considered at the end of this chapter.
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Kulikovskiy, V. (2015). Simulation of the ANTARES Detector Work. In: Neutrino Astrophysics with the ANTARES Telescope. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20412-3_3
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