| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 208, 2019
ISVHECRI 2018 - XX International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
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| Article Number | 02002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | UHECR, Spectra, Composition and Anisotropy | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920802002 | |
| Published online | 10 May 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920802002
Hadronic Interactions and Air Showers: Where Do We Stand?
KIT, IKP, Karlsruhe, Germany
* e-mail: tanguy.pierog@kit.edu
Published online: 10 May 2019
The interpretation of EAS measurements strongly depends on detailed air shower simulations. CORSIKA is one of the most commonly used air shower Monte Carlo programs. The main source of uncertainty in the prediction of shower observables for different primary particles and energies is currently dominated by differences between hadronic interaction models even after recent updates taking into account the first LHC data. As a matter of fact the model predictions converged but at the same time more precise air shower and LHC measurements introduced new constraints. Last year a new generation of hadronic interaction models was released in CORSIKA. Sibyll 2.3c and DPMJETIII.17-1 are now available with improved descriptions of particle production and in particular the production of charmed particles. The impact of these hadronic interaction models on air shower predictions are presented here and compared to the first generation of post-LHC models, EPOS LHC and QGSJETII-04. The performance of the new models on standard air shower observables is derived. Due to the various approaches in the physics treatment, there are still large differences in the model predictions but this can already be partially resolved by comparison with the latest LHC data.
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