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Air showers and hadronic interactions with CORSIKA 8
by Maximilian Reininghaus
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Maximilian Reininghaus |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07797v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2022-10-17 02:46 |
| Submitted by: | Reininghaus, Maximilian |
| 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.
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Reports on this Submission
Anonymous Report 1 on 2022-11-25 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2210.07797v1, delivered 2022-11-25, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.6197
Strengths
The report is a well-written overview of recent progress on the CORSIKA8 project and the integration of Pythia8 as a hadronic interaction model.
Weaknesses
I was missing an outlook in the final summary. The paper shows nicely what can already be done with CORSIKA 8, but it is not clear which features still need to be implemented to reach version 1.0 and feature parity with CORSIKA 7.
The tone in the introduction is a bit too informal.
Report
The paper is of high-quality and meets the acceptance criteria. I ask for a minor revision to add an outlook to the conclusions (see weaknesses).
Requested changes
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