CORSIKA
Encyclopedia
CORSIKA is a physics
computer software
for simulation of extensive air showers
induced by high energy cosmic ray
s. It may be used up to and beyond the highest energies of 100 EeV
.
Program utilizes VENUS, QGSJET, and DPMJET models, which are based on the Gribov-Regge theory and SIBYLL based on a minijet model. Hadronic interactions at lower energies are described either by the GHEISHA module, by FLUKA
, or by the UrQMD
model.
It can be used to simulate the generation of Cherenkov radiation
and neutrino
s.
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
computer software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
for simulation of extensive air showers
Air shower (physics)
An air shower is an extensive cascade of ionized particles and electromagnetic radiation produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray enters the atmosphere...
induced by high energy cosmic ray
Cosmic ray
Cosmic rays are energetic charged subatomic particles, originating from outer space. They may produce secondary particles that penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and surface. The term ray is historical as cosmic rays were thought to be electromagnetic radiation...
s. It may be used up to and beyond the highest energies of 100 EeV
Electronvolt
In physics, the electron volt is a unit of energy equal to approximately joule . By definition, it is equal to the amount of kinetic energy gained by a single unbound electron when it accelerates through an electric potential difference of one volt...
.
Program utilizes VENUS, QGSJET, and DPMJET models, which are based on the Gribov-Regge theory and SIBYLL based on a minijet model. Hadronic interactions at lower energies are described either by the GHEISHA module, by FLUKA
FLUKA
FLUKA is a fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter....
, or by the UrQMD
UrQMD
UrQMD is a fully integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for Proton+Proton, Proton+nucleus and nucleus+nucleus interactions...
model.
It can be used to simulate the generation of Cherenkov radiation
Cherenkov radiation
Cherenkov radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium...
and neutrino
Neutrino
A neutrino is an electrically neutral, weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with a half-integer spin, chirality and a disputed but small non-zero mass. It is able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected...
s.
External links
- Official site of CORSIKA
- Cosmic Ray Telescope Muon Detector
- Extensive Air Shower Simulations with CORSIKA and the Influence of High-Energy Hadronic Interaction Models by Heck, D. at CitebaseCitebaseCitebase Search is an experimental, semi-autonomous citation index for the free, online research literature created by Tim Brody at the University of Southampton, UK. It harvests open access e-prints from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a...
, oai:arXiv.org:astro-ph/0103073 at arXivArXivThe arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all... - The Automated Air Shower Generation with CORSIKA at the Computing Center of IN2P3 PSPostScriptPostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
- Recent Extensions to the Air Shower Simulation Program CORSIKA PSPostScriptPostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...
, proceedings of the 25th ICRCInternational Cosmic Ray ConferenceThe International Cosmic Ray Conference, or ICRC, is a physics conference organized biennially by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics since 1947, where physicists from the whole world present the results of the experiences about cosmic rays they are working on.Proceedings are...
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