Status and prospects of the CORSIKA 8 air shower simulation framework by Alexander Sandrock. on Wednesday 30 November

The Fortran-versions of the CORSIKA air shower simulation code have been at

the core of simulations for many astroparticle physics experiments for the last

30 years. Having grown over decades into an ever more complex software,

maintainability of CORSIKA has become increasingly difficult, though its

performance is still excellent. In 2018, therefore a complete rewrite of

CORSIKA has begun in modern modular C++. Today, CORSIKA 8 has reached important

milestones with a full-fledged implementation of both the hadronic and

electromagnetic cascades, the ability to simulate radio and Cherenkov-light

emission from air showers and an unprecedented flexibility to configure

simulation media and their geometries.

This presentation will discuss the current status of CORSIKA 8, highlight the

new possibilities already available, and future prospects of this new air

shower simulation framework.

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16057v1