CORSIKA

Infobox Software
name = CORSIKA,
an Extensive Air Shower Simulation Program



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author = Tanguy Pierog, Dieter Heck, Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany;
Johannes Knapp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, England
developer = CORSIKA collaboration
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latest release version = 6.735
latest release date = June 27, 2008
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genre = Particle physics
license = CORSIKA is available to every scientist free of charge [http://www-ik.fzk.de/corsika/technicalities.html (more)]
website = [http://www-ik.fzk.de/corsika/ www-ik.fzk.de/corsika/]

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.

Program utilizes VENUS, QGSJET, and DPMJET models, which are based on the Gribov-Regge theory and SIBYLL based on a minijet model. Hadronic interactions at lower energies are described either by the GHEISHA module, by FLUKA, or by the UrQMD model.

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

External links

* [http://www-ik.fzk.de/corsika/ Official site of CORSIKA]
* [http://www.cosmicrays.org/muon-corsika.php Cosmic Ray Telescope Muon Detector]
* [http://www.citebase.org/abstract?id=oai%3AarXiv.org%3Aastro-ph%2F0103073 Extensive Air Shower Simulations with CORSIKA and the Influence of High-Energy Hadronic Interaction Models] by Heck, D. at Citebase, [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103073 oai:arXiv.org:astro-ph/0103073] at arXiv
* [http://www.auger.de/interna/docs/repository/gap_2001_059.ps The Automated Air Shower Generation with CORSIKA at the Computing Center of IN2P3] PS
* [http://www-ik.fzk.de/~heck/publications/icrc_durban.ps Recent Extensions to the Air Shower Simulation Program CORSIKA] PS