Hybrid Simulation of Cosmic Ray Air Showers
arXiv:astro-ph/0411144 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.07.028
Abstract
Air shower simulations are essential for interpreting data from cosmic ray experiments. At highest energies though, a microscopic treatment of a whole shower is not possible any more, since it would require a huge amount of CPU-time. We review hybrid approaches of air shower simulation which try to overcome this problem without giving rise to artificial fluctuations as generated by the thinning algorithm.
8 pages, 9 figures, invited talk at the XIII International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (Sept.6-12), Pylos, Greece