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In the last years the direct measurement of cosmic rays received a push forward by the possibility of conducting experiments on board long duration balloon flights, satellites and on the International Space Station. The increase in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Emiliano Mocchiutti

The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) is a recently initiated experiment designed to detect the englacial cascade of a cosmic-ray initiated air shower via in-ice radar, toward the goal of a full-scale, next-generation experiment…

On the base of the diffusion Monte-Carlo method we develop the method allowing to simulate the quantum systems with complex wave function. The method is exact and there are no approximations on the simulations of the module and the phase of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Abdullaev , M. Musakhanov , A. Nakamura

Monte Carlo statistical ray-tracing methods are commonly employed to simulate carrier transport in nanostructured materials. In the case of a large degree of nanostructuring and under linear response (small driving fields), these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Neophytos Neophytou

The discrepancies in the results produced by the two most commonly used Monte Carlo programs for simulation of propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray photons in the presence of the geomagnetic field are presented. Although photons have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-10 P. Homola , M. Rygielski

We present a set of new numerical methods that are relevant to calculating radiation pressure terms in hydrodynamics calculations, with a particular focus on massive star formation. The radiation force is determined from a Monte Carlo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim J. Harries

We present a new fast algorithm which allows the simulation of ionising radiation emitted from point sources to be included in high-resolution three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of star cluster formation. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 James Dale , Barbara Ercolano , Cathie Clarke

The Fermi LAT collaboration has built up a detailed Monte Carlo simulation to characterize the instrument response and tune its performance. The simulation code is built around the widely used GEANT4 toolkit and was carefully validated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Sgrò , J. Bregeon , L. Baldini

On-going measurements of the cosmic radiation (nuclear, electronic, and gamma-ray) are shedding new light on cosmic-ray physics. A comprehensive picture of these data relies on an accurate determination of the transport and source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-08 A. Putze , L. Derome , D. Maurin

Digital radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers has emerged as an alternative technique in high-energy astroparticle physics. Estimation of the detection efficiency of cosmic-ray radio arrays is one of the few remaining challenges…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Vladimir Lenok , Frank G. Schröder

Anisotropic diffusion is imperative in understanding cosmic ray diffusion across the Galaxy, the heliosphere, and the interplay of cosmic rays with the Galactic magnetic field. This diffusion term contributes to the highly stiff nature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Pranab J. Deka , Ralf Kissmann , Lukas Einkemmer

Cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere allow for the probing of fundamental interactions at ultra-high energies. We thus obtain limits on strongly coupled new physics models via their imprints on cosmic-ray air showers. Using the Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Peter Schichtel , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is considered as the most accurate method for radiation dose calculations. Accuracy of a source model for a linear accelerator is critical for the overall dose calculation accuracy. In this paper, we presented an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Zhen Tian , Yongbao Li , Michael Folkerts , Feng Shi , Steve B. Jiang , Xun Jia

We revisit and extend the analysis supporting a 60 year-old suggestion that cosmic rays air showers resulting from primary particles with energies above 10^{18} eV should be straightforward to detect with radar ranging techniques, where the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-23 Peter. W. Gorham

Traditional cosmic ray filtering algorithms used in X-ray imaging detectors aboard space telescopes perform event reconstruction based on the properties of activated pixels above a certain energy threshold, within 3x3 or 5x5 pixel sliding…

Monte Carlo simulations were conducted using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) to investigate the role of secondary cosmic rays in the generation of long-duration bursts from thunderclouds and to clarify the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Harufumi Tsuchiya

Propagation of ultra-high energy photons in the galactic and intergalactic space gives rise to cascades comprising thousands of photons. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the development of such cascades in the solar…

Propagation of charged cosmic-rays in the Galaxy depends on the transport parameters, whose number can be large depending on the propagation model under scrutiny. A standard approach for determining these parameters is a manual scan,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-13 A. Putze , L. Derome , D. Maurin , L. Perotto , R. Taillet

The study of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) has the potential to improve our understanding of high energy astrophysical phenomena. In order to reliably use GRBs to this end, we first need to have a well-developed grasp of the mechanism that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-26 Tyler Parsotan , Davide Lazzati

Numerical simulations of models and theories that describe complex systems such as spin glasses are becoming increasingly important. Beyond fundamental research, these computational methods also find practical applications in fields like…