Extensive air shower simulations with the CORSIKA program

Conference · Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:5408137

Capdevielee, J N; Gabriel, P; Gils, H J; Grieder, P; Heck, D; Knapp, J; Mayer, H J; Oehlschlaeger, J; Rebel, H; Schatz, G; Thouw, T ^[1]

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1. Kernforschungszentrum and University Karlsruhe, P.O. Box 3640, D-7500 Karlsruhe (Germany)

CORSIKA is a detailed Monte Carlo program to study the development of extensive air showers in the atmosphere initiated by photons, protons, or nuclei of energies up to 10[sup 17] eV. Wherever possible experimentally accessible data have been used to model the high energy interactions of primary and secondary particles with the nuclei of the atmosphere. The CORSIKA code is based essentially on the Dual Parton Model to describe the hadronic interactions at high energies, the isobar model for hadronic reactions at low energies, and EGS4 for a detailed simulation of the electromagnetic part. The nucleus-nucleus interaction model follows the considerations of Klar and Huefner. Heuristic nucleus fragment models are implemented. Diffractive and charge exchange reactions are possible. Photoproduction of muon pairs and hadrons has been introduced into the electromagnetic part. The gross features of the program are presented and some results are given.

• OSTI ID: 5408137
• Report Number(s): CONF-9206284-; CODEN: APCPCS
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 276:1; Conference: 7. international symposium on very high energy cosmic ray interactions, Ann Arbor, MI (United States), 21-27 Jun 1992; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
ENERGY SPECTRA
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HADRON REACTIONS
MUONS
PEV RANGE
PHOTOPRODUCTION
BASIC INTERACTIONS
CALCULATION METHODS
COSMIC RADIATION
COSMIC SHOWERS
DATA
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
FERMIONS
INFORMATION
INTERACTIONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LEPTONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
RADIATIONS
SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION
SHOWERS
SPECTRA
662340* - Hadron Interactions- (1992-)