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The CORSIKA 8 project aims to develop a versatile and modern framework for particle shower simulations that meets the new needs of experiments and addresses the caveats of existing codes. Of particular relevance is the ability to compute…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Juan Ammerman-Yebra , Uzair Abdul Latif , Nikolaos Karastathis , Tim Huege , Simon de Kockere

For over two decades, CORSIKA 7 and its previous versions have been the leading Monte Carlo code for simulating extensive air showers. However, its monolithic Fortran-based software design and hand-optimized code has created challenges for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-23 Chloé Gaudu

We present computing results of the Cherenkov light propagation in air and water from extensive air showers developing over the ocean. Limits on zenith angles of the showers, at which the registration of flashes of reflected Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 O. P. Shustova , N. N. Kalmykov , B. A. Khrenov

The Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) was simulated with the CORSIKA code, in the energy range (10^13-10^16) eV. This simulation was performed for conditions and configurations of the Tunka EAS Cherenkov array for two…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 A. A. Al-Rubaiee , U. Hashim , Marwah M. , Y. Al-Douri

The radio-frequency emissions produced by particle showers on Earth, resulting from cosmic rays (CRs) and ultra-high energy neutrinos (UHE-$\nu$) originating from astrophysical sources share significant similarities, enabling radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Shoukat Ali , Dave Z. Besson for ARA Collaboration

In this article we review the progress made in understanding the main characteristics of coherent \v{C}erenkov radiation induced by high energy showers in dense media. A specific code developed for this purpose is described because it took…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Enrique Zas

The results of Monte-Carlo simulations of Extensive Air Shower are presented to show the difference of hadronic component content at various altitudes with the aim to choose an optimal altitude for the PRISMA-like experiment. CORSIKA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-18 Yu. V. Stenkin , V. V. Alekseenko , D. M. Gromushkin , Y. Liu , X. H. Ma , J. Zhao

Ground-based cosmic ray experiments detect cosmic ray mainly by measuring the longitudinal and lateral distribution of secondary particles produced in the extensive air shower (EAS). The EAS of cosmic ray in the knee energy region is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Feng Zhang , Hu Liu , Fengrong Zhu , Jacob Oloketuyi

We present an improved method for the precise reconstruction of cosmic ray air showers above $10^{17}$ eV with sparse radio arrays. The method is based on the comparison of predictions for radio pulse shapes by CoREAS simulations to…

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

The Fortran-versions of the CORSIKA air shower simulation code have been at the core of simulations for many astroparticle physics experiments for the last 30 years. Having grown over decades into an ever more complex software,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Alexander Sandrock

In this paper we present a new method for ground based gamma ray astronomy based only on atmospheric Cherenkov light flux analysis. The Cherenkov light flux densities in extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by different primaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mishev , S. Mavrodiev , J. Stamenov

An efficient scheme for one-dimensional extensive air shower simulation and its implementation in the program CONEX are presented. Explicit Monte Carlo simulation of the high-energy part of hadronic and electromagnetic cascades in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 T. Bergmann , R. Engel , D. Heck , N. N. Kalmykov , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog , T. Thouw , K. Werner

For fifty years, cosmic-ray air showers have been detected by their radio emission. We present the first laboratory measurements that validate electrodynamics simulations used in air shower modeling. An experiment at SLAC provides a beam…

Some performances of the present CODALEMA experiment, set up to analyse radio-detected Extensive Air Shower (EAS) events, are presented. Characteristics of the EAS electric field distribution sampled on a 600~m long axis are discussed.

In the last years, several models and simulations calculating the radio emission from cosmic ray air showers have been developed. However, a number of those made conflicting predictions on the pulse shapes and the amplitudes of the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-16 Marianne Ludwig , Tim Huege , Olaf Scholten , Krijn D. de Vries

Next-generation radio experiments such as the Radio Detector of the upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory and the planned GRAND and BEACON arrays target the detection of ultra-high-energy particle air showers arriving at low elevation angles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Simon Chiche , Chao Zhang , Felix Schlüter , Kumiko Kotera , Tim Huege , Krijn D. de Vries , Matias Tueros , Marion Guelfand

Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a detection technique for ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere with energies far beyond LHC energies. Today's second-generation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-14 Anne Zilles , Didier Charrier , Kumiko Kotera , Sandra Le Coz , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Clementina Medina , Valentin Niess , Matias Tueros , Krijn de Vries

The simulation of Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (CLLDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was performed by using the Monte Carlo CORSIKA code for configurations of Tunka-133 EAS Cherenkov array. This simulation was carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-03 Marwah M. Abdulsttar , A. A. Al-Rubaiee