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Extensive Air Showers are still the only source of information on primary cosmic rays and their interactions at energies above PeV. However, this information is hidden inside the multiplicative character of the cascading process. Inspite of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin

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

Over the last two decades, various experiments have measured muon densities in extensive air showers over several orders of magnitude in primary energy. While some experiments observed differences in the muon densities between simulated and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 Dennis Soldin

The number of muons in extensive air showers predicted using LHC-tuned hadronic interaction models, such as EPOS-LHC and QGSJetII-04, is smaller than observed in showers recorded by leading cosmic ray experiments. In this paper, we present…

A comparative study of simulated air shower longitudinal profiles is presented. An appropriate thinning level for the calculations is first determined empirically. High statistics results are then provided, over a wide energy range,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 C. L. Pryke

The computation of hard processes in hadronic collisions is a major success of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). In such processes, pQCD not only predicts the hard reaction itself, but also the subsequent evolution in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Thorsten Renk

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory provides the opportunity to perform unique measurements of cosmic-ray air showers with its combination of a surface array and a deep detector. Electromagnetic particles and low-energy muons ($\sim$GeV) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Stef Verpoest , Dennis Soldin , Sam De Ridder

A hybrid experiment has been started by AS{\gamma} collaboration at Tibet, China, since May 2009, that consists of a burst-detector-grid (YAC, Yangbajing Air shower Core array) and the Tibet air-shower array (Tibet-III). The first step of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-14 gamma Collaboration

Detailed investigations of extensive air showers have been performed with the data measured by the KASCADE experiment. The results allow to evaluate hadronic interaction models, used in simulations to interpret air shower data. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 KASCADE Collaboration , J. R. Hoerandel

A new EAS hybrid experiment has been designed by constructing a YAC (Yangbajing Air shower Core) detector array inside the existing Tibet-III air shower array. The first step of YAC, called "YAC-I", consists of 16 plastic scintillator units…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-15 Ying Zhang , J. Huang , L. Jiang , D. Chen , L. K. Ding , M. Shibata , Y. Katayose , N. Hotta , M. Ohnishi , T. Ouchi , T. Saito

Generating realistic 3D human-object interactions (HOIs) from text descriptions is a active research topic with potential applications in virtual and augmented reality, robotics, and animation. However, creating high-quality 3D HOIs remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yixuan Zhang , Hui Yang , Chuanchen Luo , Junran Peng , Yuxi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

The HIJING and VENUS models of relativistic hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions are used to study interactions of hadron-hadron, hadron-nitrogen and nucleus-nitrogen collisions, specific for the extensive air shower developments…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 V. Topor Pop , M. Gyulassy , H. Rebel

We consider energetics and structural properties of a many particle system in one dimension with pairwise contact interactions confined in a parabolic external potential. To render the problem analytically solvable, we use the harmonic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-20 J. R. Armstrong , N. T. Zinner , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

We consider two (2D) and three (3D) dimensional granular systems exposed to compression, and ask what is the influence of the number of physical dimensions on the properties of the interaction networks that spontaneously form as these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-22 L. Kovalcinova , A. Taranto , L. Kondic

We show that combining the published Pierre Auger Observatory measurements of the longitudinal_and_ lateral properties of UHE atmospheric showers, points to an unforeseen change in the nature of particle interactions at ultrahigh energy. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-10 Glennys R. Farrar , Jeffrey D. Allen

The phase variation with angle of hadronic amplitudes is studied with a view to understanding the underlying physical quantities which control it and how well it can be determined in free space. We find that unitarity forces a moderately…

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Hard scattering events in high-energy collisions produce highly virtual partons that subsequently fragment into collimated hadronic cascades. When such partonic showers evolve in a QCD medium, as in deep-inelastic scattering or heavy-ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 João Barata , Meijian Li , Wenyang Qian , Carlos A. Salgado , João M. Silva

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

QCD jets are considered important probes for quark gluon plasma created in collisions of nuclei at high energies. Their parton showers are significantly altered if they develop inside of a deconfined medium. Hadronization of jets is also…