Citing GENIE

MCnet Guidelines for Fair Academic Use

The authors of GENIE endorse the MCNET guidelines for fair academic use. We invite users to consider which GENIE components are important for a particular analysis and cite them, in addition to the main references.

An incomplete list of related references is maintained here.

Main reference

If you use GENIE, please always cite the following reference:

C.Andreopoulos et al., The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A614 (2010) 87-104

@article{Andreopoulos:2009rq,
    author = "Andreopoulos, C. and others",
    title = "{The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator}",
    eprint = "0905.2517",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ph",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-09-418-CD",
    doi = "10.1016/j.nima.2009.12.009",
    journal = "Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A",
    volume = "614",
    pages = "87--104",
    year = "2010"
}   

Additional reference for GENIE software toolkit

If you used the standard GENIE apps or the GENIE experimental interfaces, including the neutrino flux and geometry navigation drivers or specialised event generation apps, the GENIE event reweighting / error propagation tools, or any of the Comparisons or Tuning products, then in addition to the main reference above, please cite the following:

C.Andreopoulos et al., The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual, arXiv:1510.05494 [hep-ph]

@article{Andreopoulos:2015wxa,
    author = "Andreopoulos, Costas and Barry, Christopher and Dytman, Steve and 
              Gallagher, Hugh and Golan, Tomasz and Hatcher, Robert and 
              Perdue, Gabriel and Yarba, Julia",
    title = "{The GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator: Physics and User Manual}",
    eprint = "1510.05494",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ph",
    reportNumber = "FERMILAB-FN-1004-CD",
    month = "10",
    year = "2015"
}

Additional references for GENIE v3 tunes

If you use the new physics tunes available in GENIE v3, please cite any relevant work listed below:

• The GENIE Collaboration (Julia Tena-Vidal et al.), Neutrino-Nucleon Cross-Section Model Tuning in GENIE v3 Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 7, 072009.
  
  

  @article{GENIE:2021zuu,
      author = "Tena-Vidal, J\'ulia and others",
      collaboration = "GENIE",
      title = "{Neutrino-nucleon cross-section model tuning in GENIE v3}",
      eprint = "2104.09179",
      archivePrefix = "arXiv",
      primaryClass = "hep-ph",
      reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-20-531-SCD-T",
      doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.104.072009",
      journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
      volume = "104",
      number = "7",
      pages = "072009",
      year = "2021"
  }
  

• The GENIE Collaboration (Julia Tena-Vidal et al.), Hadronization model tuning in GENIE v3, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 1, 012009
  
  

      
  @article{GENIE:2021wox,
      author = "Tena-Vidal, J\'ulia and others",
      collaboration = "GENIE",
      title = "{Hadronization model tuning in genie v3}",
      eprint = "2106.05884",
      archivePrefix = "arXiv",
      primaryClass = "hep-ph",
      reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-21-024-QIS-SCD-T",
      doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.105.012009",
      journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
      volume = "105",
      number = "1",
      pages = "012009",
      year = "2022"
  }
  

• The GENIE Collaboration (Julia Tena-Vidal et al.), Neutrino-nucleus CC0π cross-section tuning in GENIE v3, Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 11, 112001
  
  

      
  @article{GENIE:2022qrc,
      author = "Tena-Vidal, Julia and others",
      collaboration = "GENIE",
      title = "{Neutrino-nucleus CC0$\pi$ cross-section tuning in GENIE v3}",
      eprint = "2206.11050",
      archivePrefix = "arXiv",
      primaryClass = "hep-ph",
      reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-22-296-ND-QIS-SCD",
      doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.106.112001",
      journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
      volume = "106",
      number = "11",
      pages = "112001",
      year = "2022"
  }
  

• The GENIE Collaboration (Weijun Li et al.), First combined tuning on transverse kinematic imbalance data with and without pion production constraints, Phys.Rev.D 110 (2024) 7, 072016
  
  

      
  @article{GENIE:2024ufm,
      author = "Li, Weijun and others",
      collaboration = "GENIE",
      title = "{First combined tuning on transverse kinematic imbalance data with and without pion production constraints}",
      eprint = "2404.08510",
      archivePrefix = "arXiv",
      primaryClass = "hep-ex",
      reportNumber = "FERMILAB-PUB-24-0122-CSAID-PPD",
      doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.110.072016",
      journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
      volume = "110",
      number = "7",
      pages = "072016",
      year = "2024"
  }