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Implementing the De-thinning Method for High Energy Cosmic Rays Extensive Air Shower Simulations
To simulate the interaction of cosmic rays with the Earth atmosphere requires
highly complex computational resources and several statistical techniques have
been developed to simplify those calculations. It is common to implement the
thinning algorithms to reduce the number of secondary particles by assigning
weights to representative particles in the evolution of the cascade. However,
since this is a compression method with information loss, it is required to
recover the original flux of secondary particles without introduce artificial
biases. In this work we present the preliminary results of our version of the
de-thinning algorithm for the reconstruction of thinned simulations of
extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays and photons in the energy range
.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, Proceedings X SILAFAE Medellin-2014. To
appear in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplement
Geant4 based simulation of the Water Cherenkov Detectors of the LAGO Project
To characterize the signals registered by the different types of water
Cherenkov detectors (WCD) used by the Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO)
Project, it is necessary to develop detailed simulations of the detector
response to the flux of secondary particles at the detector level. These
particles are originated during the interaction of cosmic rays with the
atmosphere. In this context, the LAGO project aims to study the high energy
component of gamma rays bursts (GRBs) and space weather phenomena by looking
for the solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). Focus in this, a
complete and complex chain of simulations is being developed that account for
geomagnetic effects, atmospheric reaction and detector response at each LAGO
site. In this work we shown the first steps of a GEANT4 based simulation for
the LAGO WCD, with emphasis on the induced effects of the detector internal
diffusive coating.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings X SILAFAE Medellin-2014. To appear in
Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplement
Cosmic Rays Induced Background Radiation on Board of Commercial Flights
The aim of this work is to determine the total integrated flux of cosmic
radiation which a commercial aircraft is exposed to along specific flight
trajectories. To study the radiation background during a flight and its
modulation by effects such as altitude, latitude, exposure time and transient
magnetospheric events, we perform simulations based on Magnetocosmics and
CORSIKA codes, the former designed to calculate the geomagnetic effects on
cosmic rays propagation and the latter allows us to simulate the development of
extended air showers in the atmosphere. In this first work, by considering the
total flux of cosmic rays from 5 GeV to 1 PeV, we obtained the expected
integrated flux of secondary particles on board of a commercial airplane during
the Bogot\'a-Buenos Aires trip by point-to-point numerical integration.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings X SILAFAE Medellin-2014. To appear in
Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplement
Cosmological perturbations in coherent oscillating scalar field models
The fact that fast oscillating homogeneous scalar fields behave as perfect
fluids in average and their intrinsic isotropy have made these models very
fruitful in cosmology. In this work we will analyse the perturbations dynamics
in these theories assuming general power law potentials . At leading order in the wavenumber expansion, a simple
expression for the effective sound speed of perturbations is obtained
with the effective equation of
state. We also obtain the first order correction in
, when the wavenumber of the perturbations is
much smaller than the background oscillation frequency, .
For the standard massive case we have also analysed general anharmonic
contributions to the effective sound speed. These results are reached through a
perturbed version of the generalized virial theorem and also studying the exact
system both in the super-Hubble limit, deriving the natural ansatz for
; and for sub-Hubble modes, exploiting Floquet's theorem.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures. Published on JHE
Isotropy theorem for cosmological Yang-Mills theories
We consider homogeneous non-abelian vector fields with general potential
terms in an expanding universe. We find a mechanical analogy with a system of N
interacting particles (with N the dimension of the gauge group) moving in three
dimensions under the action of a central potential. In the case of bounded and
rapid evolution compared to the rate of expansion, we show by making use of a
generalization of the virial theorem that for arbitrary potential and
polarization pattern, the average energy-momentum tensor is always diagonal and
isotropic despite the intrinsic anisotropic evolution of the vector field. We
consider also the case in which a gauge-fixing term is introduced in the action
and show that the average equation of state does not depend on such a term.
Finally, we extend the results to arbitrary background geometries and show that
the average energy-momentum tensor of a rapidly evolving Yang-Mills fields is
always isotropic and has the perfect fluid form for any locally inertial
observer.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Isotropy theorem for arbitrary-spin cosmological fields
We show that the energy-momentum tensor of homogeneous fields of arbitrary
spin in an expanding universe is always isotropic in average provided the
fields remain bounded and evolve rapidly compared to the rate of expansion. An
analytic expression for the average equation of state is obtained for
Lagrangians with generic power-law kinetic and potential terms. As an example
we consider the behavior of a spin-two field in the standard Fierz-Pauli theory
of massive gravity. The results can be extended to general space-time
geometries for locally inertial observers.Comment: 4 pages, 0 figures. Published on JCA
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