Cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere: QGSJET-III and other models
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2022-08-12 v1
Abstract
The physics content of the QGSJET-III Monte Carlo generator of high energy hadronic collisions is discussed. New theoretical approaches implemented in QGSJET-III are addressed in some detail and a comparison to alternative treatments of other cosmic ray interaction models is performed. Calculated characteristics of cosmic ray-induced extensive air showers are presented and differences between the respective results of QGSJET-III and other models are analyzed. In particular, it is demonstrated that those differences are partly caused by severe deficiencies of the other interaction models.
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@article{arxiv.2208.05889,
title = {Cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere: QGSJET-III and other models},
author = {S. Ostapchenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.05889},
year = {2022}
}
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