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Sub-TeV hadronic interaction model differences and their impact on air showers
by M. Schmelling, Á. Pastor-Gutiérrez, H. Schorlemmer, R. D. Parsons
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Michael Schmelling |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07575v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | July 21, 2023 |
| Date submitted: | Dec. 12, 2022, 12:11 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Michael Schmelling |
| 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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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.
Author comments upon resubmission
We thank the reviewer for the careful reading and the constructive feedback on the manuscript. The original version was a bit on terse side also because we wanted to stick to the target page limit, i.e. we are happy for the opportunity to expand the text a bit.
List of changes
The revised version
- implements the suggested improvement on the wording
- has an expanded introduction which puts the subject into broader context and cites additional paper
- has more explanations in the caption of figure 2
- puts, in the conclusions, more emphasis on comparisons to accelerator data. We did not enter into a discussion of whether kappa is a good variable for accelerator experiments, but simply point out that information from that source will mainly be inclusive particle production cross sections.
Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 15, 015 (2024)