Extensive air shower simulation for the Telescope Array surface detector

29 Jun 2010, 16:30
1h
Atrium (Fermilab)

Atrium

Fermilab

PO Box 500 Batavia, IL 60510
Board: 8
Poster Extensive air shower experiments Poster Session I

Speaker

Dr Benjamin Stokes (University of Utah)

Description

The history of ultra-high energy cosmic ray observation is now approaching 50 years. However, until quite recently, the full simulation of an extensive air shower was computationally impossible due to the vast quantity of daughter particles involved. However, with the advent of modern cluster computing, simulations that once would have taken years to complete can be done in a matter of hours or even minutes. Full shower simulations produced by a parallelization scheme employing the Karlsruhe Extensive Air Shower Simulation Code (CORSIKA) will be presented in conjunction with a ``dethinning'' technique that attempts to recover information lost by the CORSIKA statistical thinning algorithm. Detailed comparisons between simulated and real event sets will then be presented

Primary author

Dr Benjamin Stokes (University of Utah)

Co-authors

Mr Dmitri Ivanov (Rutgers University) Prof. Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)

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