scholarly journals Astroparticle Physics in Europe: Status and Perspectives

2008 ◽  
pp. 375-405
Author(s):  
Christian Spiering
Keyword(s):  
Astroparticle Physics

UNDERGROUND LABORATORIES AND THEIR PHYSICS REACH

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 1230008
Author(s):  
E. COCCIA
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Nuclear Astrophysics ◽  
Astroparticle Physics ◽  
The World ◽  
Radioactive Background ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
Silence Condition ◽  
Rare Phenomena ◽  
Fundamental Forces

Underground laboratories, shielded by the Earth's crust from the particles that rain down on the surface in the form of cosmic rays, provide the low radioactive background environment necessary to host key experiments in the field of particle and astroparticle physics, nuclear astrophysics and other disciplines that can profit of their characteristics and of their infrastructures. The cosmic silence condition existing in these laboratories allows the search for extremely rare phenomena and the exploration of the highest energy scales that cannot be reached with accelerators. Major fundamental challenges are within the scope of these laboratories, notably, understanding the properties of neutrinos and dark matter, and exploring the unification of the fundamental forces of nature. I will review the physics reach and briefly describe the main underground facilities that are presently in operation around the world.

scholarly journals Counter-based pseudorandom number generators for CORSIKA 8

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 03039
Author(s):  
A. Augusto Alves ◽  
Anton Poctarev ◽  
Ralf Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Particle ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Massively Parallel ◽  
Random Numbers ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
Simulation Framework ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Astroparticle Physics ◽  
Lazy Evaluation ◽  
High Quality

This document is devoted to the description of advances in the generation of high-quality random numbers for CORSIKA 8, which is being developed in modern C++17 and is designed to run on modern multi-thread processors and accelerators. CORSIKA 8 is a Monte Carlo simulation framework to model ultra-high energy secondary particle cascades in astroparticle physics. The aspects associated with the generation of high-quality random numbers on massively parallel platforms, like multi-core CPUs and GPUs, are reviewed and the deployment of counter-based engines using an innovative and multi-thread friendly API are described. The API is based on iterators providing a very well known access mechanism in C++, and also supports lazy evaluation. Moreover, an upgraded version of the Squares algorithm with highly efficient internal 128 as well as 256 bit counters is presented in this context. Performance measurements are provided, as well as comparisons with conventional designs are given. Finally, the integration into CORSIKA 8 is commented.

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