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The simulation of the Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was perfomed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range 10^13-10^16 eV for configuration of the Tunka-25 EAS array. On the basis of this…

The air shower simulation code CORSIKA has served as a key part of the simulation chain for numerous astroparticle physics experiments over the past decades. Due to retirement of the original developers and the increasingly difficult…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Alexander Sandrock , Jean-Marco Alameddine , Felix Riehn

This work summarizes the results presented at 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Pune India. Generally the aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of the atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Mishev , Strashimir Mavrodiev , Jordan Stamenov

The paper proposes a new approach for approximating the lateral distribution functions (LDF) of Cherenkov light emitted by the electromagnetic component of extensive air showers (EAS) in the Earth's atmosphere. The information basis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 N. V. Volkov , A. A. Lagutin , A. I. Reviakin , R. T. Bizhanov

The CORSIKA program, usually used to simulate extensive cosmic ray air showers, has been adapted to work in a water or ice medium. The adapted CORSIKA code was used to simulate hadronic showers produced by neutrino interactions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Bevan , S. Danaher , J. Perkin , S. Ralph , C. Rhodes , L. Thompson , T. Sloan , D. Waters

A simple method for the parallelization of extensive air shower simulations is described. A shower is simulated at fixed steps in altitude. At each step, daughter particles below a specified energy threshold are siphoned off and tabulated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-25 B. T. Stokes , R. Cady , D. Ivanov , J. N. Matthews , G. B. Thomson

The simulation of extensive air showers and particle cascades in general is a cornerstone of modern astroparticle physics. For more than two decades, CORSIKA, currently in version 7, has been one of the most widely used tools for this…

A new SPHERE-3 telescope is being developed for cosmic rays spectrum and mass composition studies in the 5--1000 PeV energy range. Registration of extensive air showers using reflected Cherenkov light method applied in the SPHERE detector…

With the aim to describe the longitudinal development of Cherenkov dominated showers we investigate the energy deposit and the number of charged particles in air showers induced by energetic cosmic rays. Based on the Monte Carlo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Vladimir Novotny , Dalibor Nosek

Some experiments have found multi-core events in cosmic rays extensive air showers which should be interpreted by hadronic interaction theory. In this paper, the multi-core events are reproduced by Monte Carlo simulation with CORSIKA. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-23 Yonggang Luo , Shuwang Cui , Xinhua Ma , Jing Zhao , Cunfeng Feng

The simulation of Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (CLLDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was performed by using the Monte Carlo CORSIKA code for configurations of Tunka-133 EAS Cherenkov array. This simulation was carried out…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-03 Marwah M. Abdulsttar , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

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

Using CORSIKA for simulating extensive air showers, we study the relation between the shower characteristics and features of hadronic multiparticle production at low energies. We report about investigations of typical energies and phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Meurer , J. Bluemer , R. Engel , A. Haungs , M. Roth

We describe the general aspects of Monte Carlo Collision Generators suitable for cosmic ray nucleon-Air and nuclei-Air interactions, including accelerator and collider data. The problem of the extrapolation at 3 energy decades above the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Jean-Noël Capdevielle , Fabrice Cohen , Corentin Le Gall

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

A new method of a primary cosmic particle energy measurement with the extensive air shower (EAS) technique has been developed by exploiting: a) the joint analysis of the shower size, obtained by the EAS-TOP array, and of the EAS Cherenkov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Korosteleva , L. A. Kuzmichev , V. V. Prosin , EAS-TOP COLLABORATION

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

The main interest of the present work is in analyzing the lateral distribution function (LDF) of Cherenkov radiation from particles that produced in Extensive Air Showers (EAS). The simulation of Cherenkov radiation LDF is fulfilled by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 Zena Fadhel Khadhum , Hassan Abdullah Mahdi , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

The ultrahigh energy tail of the cosmic ray spectrum has been explored with unprecedented detail. For this reason, new experiments are exerting a severe pressure on extensive air shower modeling. Detailed fast codes are in need in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeferson A. Ortiz , Vitor de Souza , Gustavo Medina-Tanco

The CORSIKA 8 project is a collaborative effort aiming to develop a versatile C++ framework for the simulation of extensive air showers, intended to eventually succeed the long-standing FORTRAN version. I present an overview of its current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-09 Maximilian Reininghaus