CORSIKA

CORSIKA,
an Extensive Air Shower Simulation Program
Original author(s) Dieter Heck, Tanguy Pierog, Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany;
Johannes Knapp, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen, Germany
Developer(s) CORSIKA collaboration
Stable release
7.640 / Dec 21, 2017
Available in FORTRAN 77
Type Particle physics
License CORSIKA is available to every scientist free of charge (more)
Website

CORSIKA (COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a physics computer software for simulation of extensive air showers induced by high energy cosmic rays. It may be used up to and beyond the highest energies of 100 EeV.

The program utilizes the hadronic interaction models VENUS, QGSJET, and DPMJET, which are based on the Gribov-Regge theory and SIBYLL based on a minijet model for high energies. Hadronic interactions at lower energies are described either by the GHEISHA module, by FLUKA, or by the UrQMD model. Electromagnetic interactions are treated by the EGS4 model, customized by including the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect relevant at higher energies.

It can be used to simulate the generation of Cherenkov radiation and atmospheric neutrinos.

A complete rewrite of CORSIKA in C++ is currently work in progress.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Engel, R.; et al. "Towards the next generation of CORSIKA: A framework for the simulation of particle cascades in astroparticle physics" (PDF).
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