One-dimensional Hybrid Approach to Extensive Air Shower Simulation

By T. Bergmann, R. Engel, D. Heck, N. Kalmykov, S. Ostapchenko, Tanguy Pierog, T. Thouw, Klaus Werner. 2006

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Abstract An efficient scheme for one-dimensional extensive air shower simulation and its implementation in the program conex are presented. Explicit Monte Carlo simulation of the high-energy part of hadronic and electro-magnetic cascades in the atmosphere is combined with a numeric solution of cascade equations for smaller energy sub-showers to obtain accurate shower predictions. The developed scheme allows us to calculate not only observables related to the number of particles (shower size) but also ionization energy deposit profiles which are needed for the interpretation of data of experiments employing the fluorescence light technique. We discuss in detail the basic algorithms developed and illustrate the power of the method. It is shown that Monte Carlo, numerical, and hybrid air shower calculations give consistent results which agree very well with those obtained within the corsika program.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Open Questions in Cosmic-Ray Research at Ultrahigh Energies (2019, methodology): “Hadronic interaction models of this type include EPOS ( Liu et al., 2004; Werner et al., 2006; Werner and Pierog, 2007; Pierog et al., 2015), QGSJET (Kalmykov and Ostapchenko, 1989; Kalmykov et al., 1997; Ostapchenko, 2006a,b, 2014), Sibyll (Engel et al., 1992, 2017; Fletcher et al., 1994; Ahn et…”
• The Muon Puzzle in cosmic-ray induced air showers and its connection to the Large Hadron Collider (2021, methodology): “The outputs of several programs have been compared (Knapp et al. 2003; Roh et al. 2013; Bergmann et al. 2007; Ortiz et al. 2005) and generally agree within 5% in the predicted muon number Nμ.”
• Hadronic interaction model sibyll 2.3d and extensive air showers (2020, methodology): “The calculations are obtained with CONEX [125], using FLUKA [126, 127] to simulate interactions at Ekin < 80 GeV.”