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SUMMARY:CORSIKA 8: A modern framework for high-energy cascade simulations
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: CORSIKA 8 Collaboration\, Remy Prechelt (University 
 of Hawai'i)\n\nThe proliferation of innovative next-generation cosmic ray 
 and neutrino observatories\, with unique geometries (Earth-skimming\, orbi
 tal\, in-ice\, etc.)\, and detection techniques (Cherenkov\, radio\, radar
 \, etc.)\, requires the simulation of ultrahigh energy particle cascades w
 hich are *challenging*\, if not *impossible*\, to perform with current sim
 ulation tools like CORSIKA 7 and AIRES. These existing codes\, which have 
 been developed in FORTRAN for more than three decades\, can be challenging
  to extend or extensively modify due to their fundamental software archite
 cture\, as well as due to their rigid assumptions about event geometries\,
  the cascade environment\, and the underlying physics models.\n\nCORSIKA 8
  is a *completely new simulation framework*\, developed in modern C++ from
  the ground up\, and is designed to perform high- and ultrahigh-energy par
 ticle cascades in matter. CORSIKA 8 has been designed to be extremely flex
 ible\, extensible\, and easy-to-use while also being extremely performant 
 via the use of compile-time optimization and HPC techniques like SIMD\, pa
 rallelization\, and GPU acceleration. In particular\, CORSIKA 8 provides s
 tandard *"pluggable"* components for creating cascade simulations with uni
 que geometries and physics\, not only in air\, but also in any other media
  including water\, ice\, and the lunar regolith.\n\nWe present the current
  status of the CORSIKA 8 project including the currently supported hadroni
 c and electromagnetic physics models\, the included radio & Cherenkov emis
 sion modelling\, and give an introduction to new simulations that will be 
 or are already enabled by the CORSIKA 8 project.\n\nhttps://events.icecube
 .wisc.edu/event/141/contributions/7980/
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URL:https://events.icecube.wisc.edu/event/141/contributions/7980/
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