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Wet particle separation is widely used in mineral processing and plastic recycling to separate mixtures of particulate materials into further usable fractions due to density differences. This work presents efforts aiming to numerically…

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Over the last years, radio detection has matured to become a competitive method for the detection of air showers. Arrays of thousands of antennas are now envisioned for the detection of cosmic rays of ultra high energy or neutrinos of…

{Measurements of cosmic-ray composition based on air-shower measurements rely mostly on the determination of the position of the shower maximum ($X_\mathrm{max}$). One efficient technique is to image the development of the air shower using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 V. B. Jhansi , S. Thoudam , S. Buitink , A. Corstranje , M. Desmet , J. R. Horandel , T. Heuge , K. Mulrey , O. Scholten

A simulation study of the energy released by extensive air showers in the form of MHz radiation is performed using the CoREAS simulation code. We develop an efficient method to extract this radiation energy from air-shower simulations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 Christian Glaser , Martin Erdmann , Jörg R. Hörandel , Tim Huege , Johannes Schulz

We present a new method for the reconstruction of the longitudinal profile of extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In contrast to the typically considered shower size profile, this method employs directly the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Unger , B. R. Dawson , R. Engel , F. Schüssler , R. Ulrich

Extensive air showers are generated through interactions of high-energy cosmic rays impinging the Earth's atmosphere. A new method is described to infer the attenuation of hadrons in air showers. The numbers of electrons and muons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-11 W. D. Apel

The demands placed on computational resources by the simulation requirements of high energy physics experiments motivate the development of novel simulation tools. Machine learning based generative models offer a solution that is both fast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-03 Sascha Diefenbacher , Engin Eren , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Katja Krüger , Peter McKeown , Lennart Rustige

The AIRES (AIR-shower Extended Simulations) system is a set of programs and subroutines to realistically simulate particle showers produced after the incidence of high energy cosmic rays on the Earth's atmosphere, and to manage all the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 S. J. Sciutto

The aim of this report of the Working Group on Hadronic Interactions and Air Shower Simulation is to give an overview of the status of the field, emphasizing open questions and a comparison of relevant results of the different experiments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 J. Allen , A. Castellina , R. Engel , K. Kasahara , S. Knurenko , T. Pierog , A. Sabourov , B. T. Stokes , R. Ulrich , S. Ostapchenko , T. Sako

The works on decoherence due to spin baths usually agree in studying a one-spin system in interaction with a large spin bath. In this paper we generalize those models by analyzing a many-spin system and by studying decoherence or its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-21 Mario Castagnino , Sebastian Fortin , Olimpia Lombardi

The detection of air-shower events via radio signals requires to develop a trigger algorithm for a clean discrimination between signal and background events in order to reduce the data stream coming from false triggers. In this contribution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Florian Führer , Tom Charnock , Anne Zilles , Matias Tueros

Point cloud source data for surface reconstruction is usually contaminated with noise and outliers. To overcome this deficiency, a density-based point cloud denoising method is presented to remove outliers and noisy points. First,…

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The deployment of several large scale arrays is envisioned to study astroparticles at ultra-high energies. In order to circumvent the heavy computational costs of exploring and optimizing their layouts, we have developed a pruning method.…

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Cosmic ray shower detection using large radio arrays has gained significant traction in recent years. With massive improvements in signal modelling and microscopic simulations, the analysis of incoming events is still severely limited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pranav Sampathkumar , Tim Huege , Andreas Haungs , Ralph Engel

A simulation study of the energy released by extensive air showers in the form of MHz radiation is performed using the CoREAS simulation code. We develop an efficient method to extract this radiation energy from air-shower simulations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-20 Christian Glaser , Martin Erdmann , Jörg R. Hörandel , Tim Huege , Johannes Schulz

An efficient approach for the simulation of ion scattering from solids is proposed. For every encountered atom, we take multiple samples of its thermal displacements among those which result in scattering with high probability to finally…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 V. A. Khodyrev , R. Andrzejewski , A. Rivera , D. O. Boerma , J. E. Prieto

Streamer electrical discharges are often investigated with computer simulations of density models (also called drift-diffusion-reaction models). We review these models, detailing their physical foundations, their range of validity and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 Alejandro Luque , Ute Ebert

We propose a new way to observe cosmic-ray-induced air showers by imaging the radio emission. With simulations we demonstrate key features for imaging the radio-wave emission from air showers, which show similarities to the well-established…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Juan Ammerman-Yebra , Harm Schoorlemmer , Anne Timmermans , Sebastian Achim Mueller

This dataset contains a detailed simulation output that allows the construction and study of different data representations for electromagnetic and hadronic showers in calorimeters. It is published so that optimal data representations can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-29 Anna Zaborowska , Peter McKeown

Simulating showers of particles in highly-granular calorimeters is a key frontier in the application of machine learning to particle physics. Achieving high accuracy and speed with generative machine learning models can enable them to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-02 Thorsten Buss , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Anatolii Korol , Katja Krüger , Peter McKeown , Martina Mozzanica