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Air showers and hadronic interactions with CORSIKA 8
by Maximilian Reininghaus
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Maximilian Reininghaus |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202212_00068v1 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | July 4, 2023 |
| Date submitted: | Dec. 23, 2022, 3:56 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Maximilian Reininghaus |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | 51st International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2022) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Computational |
Abstract
The CORSIKA 8 project is a collaborative effort aiming to develop a versatile C++ framework for the simulation of extensive air showers, intended to eventually succeed the long-standing FORTRAN version. I present an overview of its current capabilities, focusing on aspects concerning the hadronic and muonic shower components. In particular, I demonstrate the "cascade lineage" feature and its application to quantify the importance of certain phase-space regions in hadronic interactions for muon production. Additionally, I show first results using Pythia 8.3, which as of late is usable as interaction model in cosmic-ray applications and is currently being integrated into CORSIKA 8.
List of changes
- an outlook paragraph has been added to the conclusions
- refs. [11] and [17] updated to published versions
Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 15, 019 (2024)