Description
The first and original version of the program "COsmic Ray SImulation for KAscade" was released in 1989 - 30 years in the past. We want to celebrate the extraordinary development CORSIKA has taken until today.
Prof.
Peter Grieder
(University of Bern, Switzerland)
6/18/19, 9:30 AM
30 years of CORSIKA celebration
I set the scene with a brief presentation of the status of our knowledge of high energy cosmic rays and particle physics around 1960. This is followed by an overview of the quark hunt in the early 1960s, when it was believed that free quarks exist, and the search that was undertaken at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen in 1965, and elsewhere. Instead of quarks, the unexpected copious...
