Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays versus Models of High Energy Hadronic Interactions

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العنوان: Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays versus Models of High Energy Hadronic Interactions
المؤلفون: Bortolato, Blaž, Kamenik, Jernej F., Tammaro, Michele
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
الوصف: We evaluate the consistency of hadronic interaction models in the CORSIKA simulation package with publicly available fluorescence telescope data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. By comparing the first few central moments of the extended air shower depth maximum distributions, as extracted from measured events, to those predicted by the best-fit inferred compositions, we derive a statistical measure of the consistency of a given hadronic model with data. To mitigate possible systematic biases, we include all primaries up to iron, compensate for the differences between the measured and simulated energy spectra of cosmic rays and account for other known systematic effects. Additionally, we study the effects of including higher central moments in the fit and project our results to larger statistics.
Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10223
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2411.10223
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv