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In order to optimise the design of space instruments making use of detection materials with low atomic numbers, an understanding of the atmospheric neutron environment and its dependencies on time and position is needed. To produce a simple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-31 Merlin Kole , Mark Pearce , Maria Muñoz Salinas

COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a program for detailed simulation of extensive air showers initiated by high energy cosmic ray particles in the atmosphere, and is used today by almost all the major instruments that aim at measuring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Luisa Arrabito , Konrad Bernlöhr , Johan Bregeon , Matthieu Carrère , Adnane Khattabi , Philippe Langlois , David Parello , Guillaume Revy

Precision measurements of charged cosmic rays have recently been carried out by space-born (e.g. AMS-02), or ground experiments (e.g. HESS). These measured data are important for the studies of astro-physical phenomena, including supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-05 Xiao-Lin Luo , Jie Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

A new approach to study the response of portable gamma detector to terrestrial gamma ray is proposed. This approach is based on two-stage Monte Carlo simulation. First, the probability distributions of the phase space coordinates of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-09 Boubaker Askri

This work presents preliminary results for the time-dependent cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy by a fully 3-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation. The distribution of cosmic-rays (both protons and helium nuclei) in the Galaxy is studied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-05 C. -Y. Huang , M. Pohl

Direct sampling of multi-dimensional systems with quantum Monte Carlo methods allows exact account of many-body effects or particle correlations. The most straightforward approach to solve the Schr\"odinger equation, Diffusion Monte Carlo,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Ilkka Ruokosenmäki , Tapio T. Rantala

A new hybrid approach to air shower simulations is described. At highest energies, each particle is followed individually using the traditional Monte Carlo method; this initializes a system of cascade equations which are applicable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hans-Joachim Drescher , Glennys R. Farrar

High-energy particles hitting the upper atmosphere of the Earth produce extensive air showers that can be detected from the ground level using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The images recorded by Cherenkov telescopes can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Stanislav Polyakov , Alexander Kryukov , Andrey Demichev , Julia Dubenskaya , Elizaveta Gres , Anna Vlaskina

Our Galaxy is filled with cosmic-ray particles and more than 98% of them are atomic nuclei. In order to clarify their origin and acceleration mechanism, chemical composition measurements of these cosmic rays with wide energy coverage play…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Michiko Ohishi , Takanori Yoshikoshi , Tatsuo Yoshida

Cosmic rays are energetic nuclei and elementary particles that originate from stars and intergalactic events. The interaction of these particles with the upper atmosphere produces a range of secondary particles that reach the surface of the…

We present detailed microscopic simulations of high-energy cosmic-ray air showers penetrating high-altitude ice layers that can be found at the polar regions. We use a combination of the CORSIKA Monte Carlo code and the Geant4 simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Simon De Kockere , Krijn D. de Vries , Nick van Eijndhoven , Uzair A. Latif

At ultra-high energies, the flux of cosmic rays is too low for direct measurements to be meaningful. When a cosmic ray enters the atmosphere, it initiates an extensive air shower, producing a cascade of secondary particles that propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Fiona Ellwanger , Darko Veberič

A compact photoneutron source (PNS), based on an electron linac was designed and constructed to provide required nuclear data for the design of Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR). Many local shielding are built to reduce the background of…

We present two numerical schemes for passive tracer particles in the hydrodynamical moving-mesh code AREPO, and compare their performance for various problems, from simple setups to cosmological simulations. The purpose of tracer particles…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-20 Shy Genel , Mark Vogelsberger , Dylan Nelson , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We perform Monte Carlo simulations of cosmic ray-induced hard X-ray radiation from the Earth's atmosphere. We find that the shape of the spectrum emergent from the atmosphere in the energy range 25-300 keV is mainly determined by Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Sazonov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , M. Revnivtsev

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays generate extensive air showers in Earth's atmosphere. A standard approach to reconstruct the energy of an ultra-high energy cosmic rays is to sample the lateral profile of the particle density on the ground of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hans Dembinski , Pierre Billoir , Olivier Deligny , Thomas Hebbeker

In the first paper of this series we examined existing methods of optical meteor trajectory estimation and developed a novel method which simultaneously uses both the geometry and the dynamics of meteors to constrain their trajectories. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Denis Vida , Peter G. Brown , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Paul Wiegert , Peter S. Gural

Diffusion generative models have excelled at diverse image generation and reconstruction tasks across fields. A less explored avenue is their application to discriminative tasks involving regression or classification problems. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Nayantara Mudur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The Earth is continuously showered by charged cosmic ray particles, naturally produced atomic nuclei moving with velocity close to the speed of light. Among these are ultra high energy cosmic ray particles with energy exceeding 5x10^19 eV,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-18 Kunlaya Soiaporn , David Chernoff , Thomas Loredo , David Ruppert , Ira Wasserman

A new approach to simulate fluorescence photons produced in extensive air showers is described. A Monte Carlo program based on CORSIKA produces the fluorescence photons for each charged particle in the development of the shower. This method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitor de Souza , Henrique M. J. Barbosa , Carola Dobrigkeit