Hadronic interactions of primary cosmic rays with the FLUKA code
Abstract
The measured fluxes of secondary particles produced by the interactions of cosmic rays with the astronomical environment represent a powerful tool to infer some properties of primary cosmic rays. In this work we investigate the production of secondary particles in inelastic hadronic interactions between several cosmic rays species of projectiles and different target nuclei of the interstellar medium. The yields of secondary particles have been calculated with the FLUKA simulation package, that provides with very good accuracy the energy distributions of secondary products in a large energy range. An application to the propagation and production of secondaries in the Galaxy is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.00201,
title = {Hadronic interactions of primary cosmic rays with the FLUKA code},
author = {M. N. Mazziotta and F. Cerutti and A. Ferrari and D. Gaggero and F. Loparco and P. R. Sala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00201},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures; Contribution to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, July 30 to August 6, The Hague, Netherlands; fixing a typo in the y-axis label of Fig. 4