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We provide realistic mock-catalogs of cosmic rays above 40 EeV, for a pure proton composition, assuming their sources are a random subset of ordinary galaxies in a simulated, volume-limited survey, for various choices of source density:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-20 A. Berlind , N. Busca , G. R. Farrar , J. P. Roberts

Neutron oscillation into mirror neutron, a sterile state exactly degenerate in mass with the neutron, could be a very rapid process, even faster than the neutron decay itself. It can be observed by comparing the neutron lose rates in an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Riccardo Biondi

Recent observations by the H.E.S.S. collaboration of the Galactic Centre region have revealed what appears to be gamma-ray emission from the decay of pions produced by interactions of recently accelerated cosmic rays with local molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Apostolos Mastichiadis , Athanasios Geranios

We developed a Monte Carlo simulation method to calculate incoherent Thomson scattering spectra in high temperature plasmas. The basic idea is to treat the entire scattering process as the superposition of individual photon-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Kentaro Sakai , Kentaro Tomita , Takeo Hoshi , Ryo Yasuhara

A revised and greatly improved version of the 3D continuum radiative transfer code MC3D is presented. It is based on the Monte-Carlo method and solves the radiative transfer problem self-consistently. It is designed for the simulation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastian Wolf

We are constructing a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron radiation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

Simulations of geosynchrotron radio emission from extensive air showers performed with the Monte Carlo code REAS1 used analytical parameterisations to describe the spatial, temporal, energy and angular particle distributions in air showers.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-26 T. Huege , R. Ulrich , R. Engel

We present a new energy transport code that models the time dependent and non-linear evolution of spectra of cosmic-ray nuclei, their secondaries, and photon target fields. The software can inject an arbitrary chemical composition including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Lukas Merten , Paolo Da Vela , Anita Reimer , Margot Boughelilba , Jon Paul Lundquist , Serguei Vorobiov , Julia Becker Tjus

The combination of different cosmological probes offers stringent tests of the $\Lambda$CDM model and enhanced control of systematics. For this purpose, we present an extension of the lightcone generator UFalcon first introduced in Sgier et…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Raphael Sgier , Janis Fluri , Jörg Herbel , Alexandre Réfrégier , Adam Amara , Tomasz Kacprzak , Andrina Nicola

In this general introduction to Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) we discuss the propagation of UHE protons and the GZK feature that is expected approaching $10^{20}\eV$ for homogeneously distributed sources. We also briefly present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel De Marco

In this manuscript we present a new approach for the numerical solution of the Galactic Cosmic Ray propagation problem. We introduce a method using advanced contemporary numerical algorithms while retaining the general complexity of other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Ralf Kissmann

A new Monte Carlo program for photohadronic interactions of relativistic nucleons with an ambient photon radiation field is presented. The event generator is designed to fulfil typical astrophysical requirements, but can also be used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. Muecke , Ralph Engel , J. P. Rachen , R. J. Protheroe , Todor Stanev

In this paper we will discuss the problem of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and show that the idea of a Single Source Model established by Erlykin and Wolfendale (1997) to explain the features seen in cosmic ray energy spectra around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tadeusz Wibig

We present version 2 of the DRAGON code designed for computing realistic predictions of the CR densities in the Galaxy. The code numerically solves the interstellar CR transport equation (including inhomogeneous and anisotropic diffusion,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-28 Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Andrea Vittino , Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Mattia Di Mauro , Arianna Ligorini , Piero Ullio , Dario Grasso

The study of secondary particles produced by the cosmic-ray interaction in the Earth's atmosphere is very crucial as these particles mainly constitute the background counts produced in the high-energy detectors at balloon and satellite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Ritabrata Sarkar , Abhijit Roy , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

The energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) is usually calculated for sources with identical properties. Assuming that all sources can accelerate UHECR protons to the same extremely high maximal energy E_max > 10^{20} eV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

During the past years several variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo electron transport have been developed in order to reduce the electron computation time transport for absorbed dose distribution. We have implemented the Macro…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Perles , A. de Almeida

We have performed the detailed numerical simulations on the propagation of the UHE protons in the energy range $E=(10^{19.5} - 10^{22.0}$) eV in the relatively strong extra-galactic magnetic field with strength $B= (10, 100)$ nG within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. Ide , S. Nagataki , S. Tsubaki , H. Yoshiguchi , K. Sato

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has been undergoing a stable on-orbit operation for more than 6 years and acquired observation of over 11 billion events. And a better understanding of the overall radiation environment on the DAMPE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-30 S. X. Wang , J. J. Zang , W. Jiang , S. J. Lei , C. N. Luo , Z. L. Xu , J. Chang

We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde , Floris F. S. van der Tak