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Air showers, produced by the interaction of energetic cosmic rays with the atmosphere, are an excellent alternative to study particle physics at energies beyond any human-made particle accelerator. For that, it is necessary to identify…

Resolving the most fundamental questions in cosmology requires simulations that match the scale, fidelity, and physical complexity demanded by next-generation sky surveys. To achieve the realism needed for this critical scientific…

Following the second HST servicing mission in 1997 when the STIS instrument was installed and the capability for parallel observations was enhanced, a substantial archive of non-proprietary parallel data has been accumulating. In this…

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

Cosmic-ray tomography usually relies on measuring the scattering or transmission of muons produced within cosmic-ray air showers to reconstruct an examined volume of interest (VOI). During the traversing of a VOI, all air shower particles,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-05 Maximilian Pérez Prada , Angel Bueno Rodríguez , Maurice Stephan , Sarah Barnes

Cosmic rays have valuable information about universe surroundings us. Finding energy, mass and arrival direction of primary cosmic ray particle are the most important aspects of extensive air shower studies. In order to determine these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 H. Hedayati Kh. , A. Anvari , M. Bahmanabadi , M. Khakian Ghomi , J. Samimi

Traditional cosmic ray simulations make use of the Montecarlo method in a very naive way to randomise energy and direction for each simulated particle. The flux of cosmic rays is modelled as a rain coming from a plane above the object of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-19 David Díez Ibáñez , Luis Obis Aparicio

The burst of radio emission by the extensive air shower provides a promising alternative for detecting ultra-high energy cosmic rays.We have developed an independent numerical program to simulate these radio signals. Our code is based on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Wei Liu , Xuelei Chen

Based on solutions of the cascade equations, the air-shower universality is a framework that for all air showers with the same energy, zenith angle, depth of shower maximum, and muon number predicts the same longitudinal, lateral, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Maximilian Stadelmaier

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rely on detailed simulations of particle collisions to build expectations of what experimental data may look like under different theory modeling assumptions. Petabytes of simulated data are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-06 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

The increasing efforts are still in progress to establish existence and to investigate the properties of pairs of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) that can be considered as originated from a single event which produced the Cosmic Radiation (CR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Yuri Verbetsky , Manana Svanidze

We consider the problem of simultaneous control and parameter estimation when the model is available only as a differentiable physics simulator. We propose a receding-horizon control framework in which a model predictive control (MPC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alan Williams , Alp Sunol

The precise modeling of subatomic particle interactions and propagation through matter is paramount for the advancement of nuclear and particle physics searches and precision measurements. The most computationally expensive step in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 Michela Paganini , Luke de Oliveira , Benjamin Nachman

We present recent developments in PYTHIA for the modelling of hadronic cascades in a medium. Several improvements have been made in the Angantyr model for collisions with nuclei, especially in the limit of low collision energies, allowing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Leif Lönnblad , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

Deep learning methods have gained popularity in high energy physics for fast modeling of particle showers in detectors. Detailed simulation frameworks such as the gold standard Geant4 are computationally intensive, and current deep…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-10-24 Atul Kumar Sinha , Daniele Paliotta , Bálint Máté , Sebastian Pina-Otey , John A. Raine , Tobias Golling , François Fleuret

The paper deals with the developing of the methodological backgrounds for the modeling and simulation of complex dynamical objects. Such backgrounds allow us to perform coordinate transformation and formulate the algorithm of its usage for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Roman Voliansky , Andri Pranolo

We present {\sc slick} (the Scalable Line Intensity Computation Kit), a software package that calculates realistic CO, [\ion{C}{1}], and [\ion{C}{2}] luminosities for clouds and galaxies formed in hydrodynamic simulations. Built on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-19 Karolina Garcia , Desika Narayanan , Gergö Popping , R. Anirudh , Sagan Sutherland , Melanie Kaasinen

The simulations of extensive air showers as well as the detectors involved in their detection play a fundamental role in the study of the high energy cosmic rays. At the highest energies the detailed simulation of air showers is very costly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-08 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

The program CORSIKA, usually used to simulate extensive cosmic ray air showers, has been adapted to a water medium in order to study the acoustic detection of ultra high energy neutrinos. Showers in water from incident protons and from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Sloan

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