Description
The current state-of-the-art in air shower simulations, with a focus on the status and progress of CORSIKA 8.
This talk describes the lepton propagator PROPOSAL, its current capabilities and its possible use in future versions of CORSIKA, and necessary extensions to function as a replacement for the EGS4 electromagnetic shower simulation code.
Template meta-programming (TMP) is a fancy and mysterious sounding topic. CORSIKA 8 is using TMP a lot, so in this talk I will explain when it is useful and demonstrate a few key techniques and best practices, based on my experience as the author of Boost.Histogram, which is another TMP-heavy C++ library.
This talk intends to give technical insights into the propagation process of PROPOSAL, a tool to propagate leptons through media. Furthermore, we are going to discuss the requirements and challenges regarding possible use cases for PROPOSAL in CORSIKA in the future.
Emca is a new python simulation package, based on MCEq, for the calculation of electromagnetic particle fluxes in various materials. The calculations are based on a cascade equation approach, allowing for an iterative calculation of showers. This allows for fast and efficient calculations of cascades, allowing easier testing and prototyping compared to a Monte Carlo approach. The methodology...
In high-energy physics (HEP), C++ is still the dominant language, but Python is continuously growing and should overtake C++ in the near future. In the industry, Python is already the dominant language for data science and driving the leading frameworks for machine learning. In this talk, I will show these and other interesting facts and explain how a "slow" interpreted language like Python is...
Overview of different features and possibilites of an extensive Stack/Memory managment implementation.
As part of this, I would also discuss "Workspace environment"
https://gitlab.ikp.kit.edu/AirShowerPhysics/corsika/issues/198
The time complexity of extensive air shower simulations rises approximately linearly with the incident particle energy for the CORSIKA 7 framework. The range of cosmic ray energies observed on earth covers several orders of magnitude. In order to simulate the highest energies in the cosmic ray spectrum, one has to introduce some sort of heuristic (e.g. thinning) which reduces runtime and...
