A fast hybrid approach to air shower simulations and applications
- The SENECA model, a new hybrid approach to air shower simulations, is presented. It combines the use of efficient cascade equations in the energy range where a shower can be treated as one-dimensional, with a traditional Monte Carlo method which traces individual particles. This allows one to reproduce natural fluctuations of individual showers as well as the lateral spread of low energy particles. The model is quite efficient in computation time. As an application of the new approach, the influence of the low energy hadronic models on shower properties for AUGER energies is studied. We conclude that these models have a significant impact on the tails of lateral distribution functions, and deserve therefore more attention.
| Author: | Hans-Joachim Drescher, Glennys R. Farrar, Marcus BleicherORCiDGND, Manuel Reiter, Sven SoffORCiD, Horst StöckerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-21004 |
| Document Type: | Preprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2005/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2005/11/14 |
| Tag: | SENECA model; hybrid approach to air shower simulations; low energy hadronic model |
| Source: | Tsukuba 2003, Cosmic Ray* 507-510 [ astro-ph/0305429] |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 354938401 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
