×

TIERRAS: a package to simulate high energy cosmic ray showers underground, underwater and under-ice. (English) Zbl 1205.82024

Summary: We present TIERRAS, a Monte Carlo simulation program based on the well-known TIERRAS air shower simulations system that enables the propagation of particle cascades underground, providing a tool to study particles arriving underground from a primary cosmic ray on the atmosphere or to initiate cascades directly underground and propagate them, exiting into the atmosphere if necessary. We show several cross-checks of its results against CORSIKA, FLUKA, GEANT and ZHS simulations and we make some considerations regarding its possible use and limitations. The first results of full underground shower simulations are presented, as an example of the package capabilities.

MSC:

82-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics
82B80 Numerical methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (MSC2010)
82C80 Numerical methods of time-dependent statistical mechanics (MSC2010)
82-08 Computational methods (statistical mechanics) (MSC2010)
65C05 Monte Carlo methods
86A10 Meteorology and atmospheric physics

Software:

TIERRAS
PDFBibTeX XMLCite
Full Text: DOI

References:

[1] Chiba, N., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, 311, 338 (1992)
[2] Medina, M. C., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, 2, 302-311 (2006)
[3] The ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS detector and physics performance, Technical Design Report, vol. 1, CERN/LHCC 99-14, 1999; The ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS detector and physics performance, Technical Design Report, vol. 1, CERN/LHCC 99-14, 1999
[4] Phys. Rev. D, 52, 3793 (1995)
[5] Aglietta, G., Il Nuovo Cimento C, 18C, 6, 629-645 (1995)
[6] Bernabei, R., Il Nuovo Cimento, 120B, 677 (2005)
[7] Sciutto, S., AIRES 2.6 User Manual
[8] Cillis, A. N., J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys., 26, 3, 309 (2000)
[9] Hansen, P., Phys. Rev. D, 71, 083012 (2005)
[10] Sciutto, S., Proc. 27th ICRC, 237 (2001)
[11] Cillis, A. N., Phys. Rev. D, 64, 013010 (2001)
[12] Luna, R., Phys. Rev. D, 70, 114034 (2004)
[13] Knapp, J., Astroparticle Phys., 19, 77 (2003), 99
[14] Badagnani, D., Proc. 29th ICRC (Pune), 9, 14 (2005)
[15] Hansen, P., Phys. Rev. D, 68, 103001 (2003)
[16] Cillis, A. N., Phys. Rev. D, 59, 113012 (1999)
[17] (2008)
[18] Grieder, P. K., Cosmic Rays at Earth (2001), Elsevier Science Univ. Press: Elsevier Science Univ. Press NL
[19] Groom, D. E., Atomic Data Nucl. Data Tables, 78, 183 (2001), 356
[20] Formaggio, J.; Martoff, J., Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., 54, 361-412 (2004)
[21] Gaisser, T. K., Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics (1990), Cambridge Univ. Press
[22] Andreev, Yu. M., Proc. 16th ICRC (Moscow), 6, 200 (1987)
[23] Kudryavstev, V. A.
[24] Mei, D. M.; Hime, A.
[25] Wang, Y. F.; Ferrari, A., Phys. Rev. D, 64, 013012 (2001)
[26] Segemar Isntemin, Ralizacion de estudios geologicos geotecnicos de la zona de El Sosneado, Malargue, Mendoza. Caracterizacion basica de suelos, 2007. See Appendix for details; Segemar Isntemin, Ralizacion de estudios geologicos geotecnicos de la zona de El Sosneado, Malargue, Mendoza. Caracterizacion basica de suelos, 2007. See Appendix for details
[27] Medina, M. C., American Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc., 884, 405-410 (2007)
[28] Supanitsky, A. D., American Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc., 884, 411-416 (2007)
[29] A.D. Supanitsky et al., in: Proc. of the 29th ICRC, vol. 7, 2005, p. 37; A.D. Supanitsky et al., in: Proc. of the 29th ICRC, vol. 7, 2005, p. 37
[30] J. Linsley, in: 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., vol. 7, 1985, pp. 163-166; J. Linsley, in: 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., vol. 7, 1985, pp. 163-166
[31] Alvarez-Muñiz, J., Phys. Rev. D, 68, 043001 (2003)
[32] M.A. Duvernois, B. Cai, D. Kleckner, in: Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, vol. 8, 2005, p. 311; M.A. Duvernois, B. Cai, D. Kleckner, in: Proceedings of the 29th ICRC, vol. 8, 2005, p. 311
[33] Huege, T., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, 604, S57-S63 (2009)
This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. In some cases that data have been complemented/enhanced by data from zbMATH Open. This attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming completeness or a perfect matching.