12–23 Jul 2021
Online
Europe/Berlin timezone

Universality of Cherenkov Light in EAS

16 Jul 2021, 18:00
1h 30m
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Poster CRI | Cosmic Ray Indirect Discussion

Speaker

Isaac Buckland

Description

Reconstruction of an EAS seen using non-imaging Cherenkov detectors requires simulating the Cherenkov yield of many EAS’s with given shower parameters. Since Shower Universality parameterizes both the angular distribution and energy distribution of charged particles within a shower, one can calculate the Cherenkov photon yield (at a fixed point) from the Cherenkov cones of electrons. In this work, we compare both the CWLD (Cherenkov Width Lateral Distribution) and arrival time distributions from Cherenkov universality calculations with those from CORSIKA iact (imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope) simulations. Since universality calculations are much less computationally expensive than shower simulation programs like CORSIKA, reconstruction could be accomplished more efficiently using Cherenkov data.

Keywords

Cherenkov Universality

Subcategory Experimental Methods & Instrumentation
Collaboration Telescope Array
other Collaboration nuSpaceSim

Primary authors

Isaac Buckland Prof. Douglas Bergman (University of Utah)

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