The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 35 Issue 2
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- Pages.57.2-57.2
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- 2010
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
Study of Extensive air shower simulation
- Roh, Soon-Young (Chungnam National University) ;
- Kim, Ji-Hee (Chungnam National University) ;
- Ryu, Dong-Su (Chungnam National University) ;
- Kang, Hye-Sung (Department of Earth science, Pusan National University) ;
- Kasahara, Katuaki (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo) ;
- Kido, Eiji (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo) ;
- Taketa, Akimichi (Center for High Energy geophysics Research, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo)
- Published : 2010.10.06
Abstract
Cosmic rays with energy exceeding 10^18eV are referred to as Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). UHECR experiments have utilized air shower simulations to estimate the properties of cosmic rays. Telescope array (TA) experiment has used COSMOS and CORSIKA mainly; the Monte Carlo codes of CORSIKA and COSMOS simulate the evolution of extensive air showers in the atmosphere initiated by photons, hadrons or nuclei UHECRs. We compare the simulations from CORSIKA and COSMOS. Comparison has shown noticeable differences at the ground distributions, longitudinal distributions, Calorimetric energy, and Xmax value. The implications of our results are discussed.
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