One-dimensional Hybrid Approach to Extensive Air Shower Simulationстатья
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Аннотация:An efficient scheme for one-dimensional extensive air shower simulation and its implementation in the
program CONEX are presented. Explicit Monte Carlo simulation of the high-energy part of hadronic and
electromagnetic cascades in the atmosphere is combined with a numeric solution of cascade equations for
smaller energy sub-showers to obtain accurate shower predictions. The developed scheme allows us to
calculate not only observables related to the number of particles (shower size) but also ionization energy
deposit profiles which are needed for the interpretation of data of experiments employing the fluorescence
light technique. We discuss in detail the basic algorithms developed and illustrate the power of the method.
It is shown that Monte Carlo, numerical, and hybrid air shower calculations give consistent results which
agree very well with those obtained within the CORSIKA program.