QGSJET-II: towards reliable description of very high energy hadronic interactions
S. Ostapchenko,S. Ostapchenko +1 more
- Vol. 151, Iss: 1, pp 143-146
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The QGSJET model has been successfully used by different groups in the field of high energy cosmic rays as discussed by the authors, and the first general update of the model is devoted to the main improvement connected to an account for non-linear interaction effects which are of crucial importance for reliable model extrapolation into the ultra-high energy domain.Abstract:
Since a number of years the QGSJET model has been successfully used by different groups in the field of high energy cosmic rays. Current work is devoted to the first general update of the model. The key improvement is connected to an account for non-linear interaction effects which are of crucial importance for reliable model extrapolation into the ultra-high energy domain. The proposed formalism allows to obtain a consistent description of hadron-hadron cross sections and hadron structure functions and to treat non-linear effects explicitly in individual hadronic and nuclear collisions. Other ameliorations concern the treatment of low mass diffraction, employment of realistic nuclear density profiles, and re-calibration of model parameters using a wider set of accelerator data.read more
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TL;DR: The first experience from commissioning and operating the detector and the performance as an air shower detector is discussed in this article, where the authors report on the technical design, construction and installation, the trigger and data acquisition systems as well as the software framework for calibration, reconstruction and simulation.
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KASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays
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TL;DR: In this article, the KASCADE-Grande air-shower data was used to reconstruct the energy spectra of different mass groups by unfolding methods over an energy range where the detector is fully efficient.
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