Solving the question of the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) requires the development of detailed simulation tools in order to interpret the experimental data and draw conclusions on the UHECR universe. CRPropa is a public Monte Carlo code for the galactic and extragalactic propagation of cosmic ray nuclei above ∼1017 eV, as well as their photon and neutrino secondaries. In this contribution the new algorithms and features of CRPropa 3, the next major release, are presented. CRPropa 3 introduces time-dependent scenarios to include cosmic evolution in the presence of cosmic ray deflections in magnetic fields. The usage of high resolution magnetic fields is facilitated by shared memory parallelism, modulated fields and fields with heterogeneous resolution. Galactic propagation is enabled through the implementation of galactic magnetic field models, as well as an efficient forward propagation technique through transformation matrices. To make use of the large Python ecosystem in astrophysics CRPropa 3 can be steered and extended in Python.
@article{arxiv.1410.5323,
title = {Cosmic ray propagation with CRPropa 3},
author = {Rafael Alves Batista and Martin Erdmann and Carmelo Evoli and Karl-Heinz Kampert and Daniel Kuempel and Gero Mueller and Günter Sigl and Arjen Van Vliet and David Walz and Tobias Winchen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5323},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
16th International workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in physics research (ACAT 2014) proceedings, 6 pages, 6 figures