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The output parameters from the ground array of the Auger South observatory, were simulated for the typical instrumental and environmental conditions at its Malarg\"ue site using the code sample-sim. Extensive air showers started by photons,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo A. Medina Tanco , Sergio J. Sciutto

CORSIKA up to version 7 has been the most-used Monte Carlo code for simulating extensive air showers for more than 20 years. Due to its monolithic, Fortran-based software design and hand-optimized code, however, it has become difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Tim Huege , Maximilian Reininghaus

Aerosol particles play an important role in the climate system by absorbing and scattering radiation and influencing cloud properties. They are also one of the biggest sources of uncertainty for climate modeling. Many climate models do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Paula Harder , Duncan Watson-Parris , Dominik Strassel , Nicolas Gauger , Philip Stier , Janis Keuper

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays impinging onto the atmosphere induce huge cascades of secondary particles. The measurement of the energy radiated by these air showers in form of radio waves enables an accurate measurement of the cosmic-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Christian Glaser

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

Hard spheres are arguably one of the most fundamental model systems in soft matter physics, and hence a common topic of simulation studies. Event-driven simulation methods provide an efficient method for studying the phase behavior and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-05 Frank Smallenburg

In this paper, we present the application of a recently developed algorithm for Bayesian multi-objective optimization to the design of a commercial aircraft environment control system (ECS). In our model, the ECS is composed of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Paul Feliot , Yves Le Guennec , Julien Bect , Emmanuel Vazquez

With the increasing computations in power system simulations, high-performance and cost-effective power system simulator is highly required. In this paper, a cloud-computing based power system simulator, namely CloudPSS, is designed. Based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yankan Song , Ying Chen , Zhitong Yu , Shaowei Huang , Chen Shen

Regular monitoring of key water quality parameters is important for assessing its the hydrological status in conjunction with air-pollution interaction. In this study, a new cost - effective technique based on the geo-ecological…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 V. F. Krapivin , C. A. Varotsos , B. Q. Nghia

This paper proposes a computationally efficient simulation strategy for cold thermal energy storage (TES) systems based on phase change material (PCM). Taking as a starting point the recent design of a TES system based on PCM, designed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 G. Bejarano , M. Vargas , M. G. Ortega , F. Castaño , J. E. Normey-Rico

Measuring radio emission from air showers provides excellent opportunities to directly measure all air shower properties, including the shower development. To exploit this in large-scale experiments, a simple and analytic parameterization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-23 Anna Nelles , Stijn Buitink , Heino Falcke , Jörg Hörandel , Tim Huege , Pim Schellart

Stereoscopic arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes allow to reconstruct gamma-ray-induced showers in 3 dimensions, which offers several advantages: direct access to the shower parameters in space and straightforward…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-08 M. Naumann-Godó , M. Lemoine-Goumard , B. Degrange

Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a promising detection technique for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. Very large or dense antenna arrays are necessary to be proficient at collecting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Anne Zilles , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Kumiko Kotera , Matias Tueros , Krijn de Vries , Washington Carvalho , Valentin Niess

The main goal of The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) was to observe from above extensive air showers caused by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-SPB1 uses a fluorescence detector that observes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Michal Vrábel , Ján Genči , Pavol Bobik , Francesca Bisconti

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

We report on the successful detection of extensive air showers (EAS) generated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays using a small-aperture fluorescence telescope (FT) deployed at the Mount Aragats high-altitude research station. The instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 M. Zotov , A. Trusov , P. Klimov , K. Asatryan , A. Belov , G. Gabaryan , V. Kudryavtsev , A. Murashov

The Auger experiment was designed to study the high-energy cosmic rays by measuring the properties of the showers produced in the atmosphere. The Southern Auger Observatory has taken data since January 2004. Results on mass composition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Giorgio Matthiae

The most important goal of studying an extensive air shower is to find the energy, mass and arrival direction of its primary cosmic ray. In order to find these parameters, the core position and arrival direction of the shower should be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 H. Hedayati Kh. , A. Anvari , M. Bahmanabadi , J. Samimi , M. Khakian Ghomi

{Measurements of cosmic-ray composition based on air-shower measurements rely mostly on the determination of the position of the shower maximum ($X_\mathrm{max}$). One efficient technique is to image the development of the air shower using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 V. B. Jhansi , S. Thoudam , S. Buitink , A. Corstranje , M. Desmet , J. R. Horandel , T. Heuge , K. Mulrey , O. Scholten

Data acquisition and analysis for the CODALEMA experiment, in operation for more than one year, has provided improved knowledge of the characteristics of this new device. At the same time, an important effort has been made to develop…