4–6 Sept 2024
Universität Siegen
Europe/Berlin timezone

Current status of Pythia 8 for air shower studies

5 Sept 2024, 11:00
20m
ENC-D-308 (Universität Siegen)

ENC-D-308

Universität Siegen

Universität Siegen Emmy Noether Campus (ENC) Walter-Flex-Straße 3 57072 Siegen

Speaker

Chloé Gaudu (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Description

  • Introduce Pythia 8 model for hadronic interactions
  • Motivate using Pythia 8 alongside the current state-of-the-art hadronic interaction models for (extensive) air shower simulations
  • Discuss cross-sections among models and compared to Auger (p-air and pp)
  • Discuss tune of Pythia 8 for air showers
  • Discuss (status of) interface between Pythia 8 and Corsika 8
  • Outlook on global tune for air showers

Primary author

Chloé Gaudu (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Presentation materials