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A hybrid simulation code is developed that is suited for fast one-dimensional simulations of shower profiles, including fluctuations. It combines the Monte Carlo simulation of high energy interactions with a fast numerical solution of…

A large scientific community depends on the precise modelling of complex processes in particle cascades in various types of matter. These models are used most prevalently in cosmic-ray physics, astrophysical-neutrino physics, and gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-20 Ralph Engel , Dieter Heck , Tim Huege , Tanguy Pierog , Maximilian Reininghaus , Felix Riehn , Ralf Ulrich , Michael Unger , Darko Veberič

This article introduces the Mathematica package \emph{HEPMath} which provides a number of utilities and algorithms for High Energy Physics computations in Mathematica. Its functionality is similar to packages like FormCalc or FeynCalc, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Martin Wiebusch

The development of a 3-dimensional simulation for Cherenkov photon emissions in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is reported in this paper. CORSIKA is the most widely used Monte-Carlo generator for the description of EAS, but it is not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 João Espadanal , Patrícia Gonçalves

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

Current and future challenges in astroparticle physics require novel simulation tools to achieve higher precision and more flexibility. For three decades the FORTRAN version of CORSIKA served the community in an excellent way. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Maximilian Reininghaus , Ralf Ulrich

CORSIKA 8 represents a significant update in the simulation of particle showers, building on the well-established foundation of CORSIKA 7. It has been entirely rewritten as a modular and modern C++ framework, addressing the limitations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Marvin Gottowik

New experiments, exploring the ultra-high energy tail of the cosmic ray spectrum with unprecedented detail, are exerting a severe pressure on extensive air hower modeling. Detailed fast codes are in need in order to extract and understand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeferson A. Ortiz , Gustavo Medina Tanco , V. de Souza

Constant potential methods (CPM) enable computationally efficient simulations of the solid-liquid interface at conducting electrodes in molecular dynamics (MD). They have been successfully used, for example, to realistically model the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Ludwig J. V. Ahrens-Iwers , Mathijs Janssen , Shern R. Tee , Robert H. Meißner

Monte Carlo event generators are in a modern terminology the digital twins of collider-based particle physics experiment. We give an introduction into the application of MC generators for particle physics, discuss their different components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jürgen Reuter

A general approach to a fast simulation of electromagnetic showers using parameterizations of the longitudinal and radial profiles in homogeneous and sampling calorimeters is described. The dependence of the shower development on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Grindhammer , S. Peters

Ion cyclotron resonance energization (ICRE) such as ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) is widely applied to magnetic confinement fusion and high-power electric propulsion. Since ICRE involves cyclotron resonance processes, a kinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Mingyang Wu , Andong Xu , Chijie Xiao

CORSIKA up to version 7 has been the most-used Monte Carlo code for simulating extensive air showers for more than 20 years. Due to its monolithic, Fortran-based software design and hand-optimized code, however, it has become difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Tim Huege , Maximilian Reininghaus

Cosmic-ray observatories necessarily rely on Monte Carlo simulations for their design, calibration and analysis of their data. Detailed simulations are very demanding computationally. We present a python-based package called ShowerModel to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 Daniel Morcuende , Jaime Rosado

We develop a Python-based open-source package to analyze the results stemming from ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations of fluids. The package is best suited for applications on natural systems, like silicate and oxide melts,…

We present an open-source code for the simulation of electron and ion transport for user-defined gas mixtures with static uniform electric and magnetic fields. The program provides microscopic interaction simulation and is interfaced with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Michele Renda , Dan Andrei Ciubotaru , Calin Iulian Banu

emcee is a Python library implementing a class of affine-invariant ensemble samplers for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). This package has been widely applied to probabilistic modeling problems in astrophysics where it was originally…

EMMA is a cosmological simulation code aimed at investigating the reionization epoch. It handles simultaneously collisionless and gas dynamics, as well as radiative transfer physics using a moment-based description with the M1…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Dominique Aubert , Nicolas Deparis , Pierre Ocvirk

Easy Parameter Inference in Cosmology (EPIC) is another Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler for Cosmology. It is implemented in Python and provides Bayesian parameter inference and model comparison based on the Bayesian evidence. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Rafael J. F. Marcondes

The Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a particle-based, meshfree, Lagrangian method used to simulate multidimensional fluids with arbitrary geometries, most commonly employed in astrophysics, cosmology, and computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Aurélien Cavelan , Rubén M. Cabezón , Michal Grabarczyk , Florina M. Ciorba