The SNOMAN User's Manual
Version 5.03

8, November 2006

A Note to the Reader

We will endeavour to keep this manual complete, accurate and comprehensible for poor documention is at best frustrating and at worst a complete waste of time! However, with the best will in the world, errors can creep in. Please notify N. West if you find any mistake or have any suggestions as to how we could improve it.

Authors

The following have made significant contributions to SNOMAN:-

• Tom Andersen

• Aubra Anthony

• Alain Bellerive

• Steve Biller

• Mark Boulay

• Steve Brice

• James Cameron

• Yuen-dat Chan

• Xin Chen

• Myung-Chol Chon

• Bruce Cleveland

• Doug Cowen

• Adam Cox

• Charles Currat

• Huaizhang Deng

• Mike Dragowsky

• Charles Duba

• Monica Dunford

• Jessica Dunmore

• Richard Ford

• Kate Frame

• Ed Frank

• Bill Frati

• Joe Formaggio

• Araz Hamian

• Phil Harvey

• Bill Heintzelman

• Nick Jelley

• Chris Jillings

• Guy Jonkmans

• Josh Klein

• Rob Komar

• Andris Krumins

• Thomas Kutter

• Chris Kyba

• Ian Lawson

• Mike Lay

• James Loach

• Jeremy Lyon

• Ryan MacLellan

• Neil McCauley

• Doug McDonald

• Gordon McGregor

• Martin Moorhead

• Christian Nally

• Mark Neubauer

• Noah Oblath

• Colin Okada

• Scott Oser

• Simon Peeters

• Alan Poon

• Gersende Prior

• Andre Roberge

• John Roberts

• Anne Schuelke

• Jeff Secrest

• Stan Seibert

• Laurel Sinclair

• Reda Tafirout

• Nathaniel Tagg

• Yasuo Takeuchi

• Matt Thorman

• Nikolai Tolich

• Tyron Tsui

• David Waller

• Dave Wark

• Peter Wittich

• Hok Wan Chen Tseung

• Richard Van de Water

• Nick West

• Jeanne Wilson

If you expected to find your name there but didn't, forgive me. Send an email to n.west1@physics.oxford.ac.uk and I will rectify it.

External Software

SNOMAN relies on the following external software:-

• CERN Program Library (version >= 99)

• EGS4 Electron Gamma Shower Code

• GEANT-FLUKA by A. Fasso, A. Ferrari, J. Ranft, P.R. Sala.

• GEANT Detector Description and Simulation Tool from CERN

• MCNP Monte CArlo N-Particle from Los Alamos National Lab

• MSW code developed by Naoya Hata

• MUSIC (MUon SImulation Code) P. Antonioli, C. Ghetti, E. V. Korolkova, V. A. Kudryavtsev, G. Sartorelli. Astroparticle Physics, vol. 7 (1997), pp. 357-368.

• Numerical Recipes

• Soudan 2 Astronomy Library