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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 72: Cosmic Ray 3
T 72.7: Talk
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 17:45–18:00, T-H31
Simulating radio emission from air showers with CORSIKA8 — •Nikolaos Karastathis1, Remy Prechelt2, Tim Huege1,3, and Juan Ammerman-Yebra4 for the CORSIKA 8 collaboration — 1Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany — 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii Manoa, Hawaii, USA — 3Astrophysical Institute, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium — 4Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
CORSIKA 8 (C8) is a new framework for air shower simulations implemented in modern C++17, based on past experience with existing codes like CORSIKA 7. It is a project structured in a modular and flexible way that allows the inclusion and development of independent modules that can produce a fully customizable air shower simulation. The calculation of radio emission from the simulated particle showers is incorporated as an integral module of C8, including signal propagation and electric field calculation at each antenna location using the "Endpoints" and ZHS formalisms simultaneously. Due to C8's flexibility, the radio functionality can be used both to validate other physics modules and to investigate specific physical scenarios. In this talk, we are going to present air shower simulations generated with C8 and compare their predicted radio emission with corresponding air showers simulated with CORSIKA 7 and ZHAireS. Radio calculation validation, a comparison of the "Endpoints" and ZHS formalisms along with the future steps of radio in C8 are also going to be shown.