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Sub-TeV hadronic interaction model differences and their impact on air showers

Michael Schmelling, Álvaro Pastor-Gutiérrez, Harm Schorlemmer, Robert Daniel Parsons

SciPost Phys. Proc. 15, 015 (2024) · published 2 April 2024

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51st International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics

Abstract

In the sub-TeV regime, the most widely used hadronic interaction models disagree significantly in their predictions of particle spectra from cosmic ray induced air showers. We investigate the nature and impact of model uncertainties, focussing on air shower primaries with energies around the transition between high and low energy hadronic interaction models, where the dissimilarities are largest and which constitute the bulk of the interactions in air showers.


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