References

The PriNCe code

Whenever publishing results, we would like ask for a citation of the original paper that contains the description of the code in the appendix.

A new view on Auger data and cosmogenic neutrinos in light of different nuclear disintegration and air-shower models
J. Heinze, A. Fedynitch, D. Boncioli and W. Winter
Astrophys.J. 873 (2019) no.1, 88
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab05ce

In case the code mentioned on your slides or internal notes, please advertise the GitHub page https://github.com/joheinze/PriNCe.

Physical models

The models for nuclear interactions and decays are parameterizations of the models that we did not make. The default settings will use a combination of the TALYS code for nuclear interactions and the SOPHIA event generator to run.

  • Nuclear photo-disintegration models:
    • TALYS: Comprehensive Nuclear Reaction Modeling
      A.J. Koning, S. Hilaire, M.C. Duijvestijn
      AIP Conf.Proc. 769 (2005) 1, 1154
      International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND2004), 1154
      DOI: 10.1063/1.1945212
    • PEANUT is part of FLUKA:
      FLUKA: A multi-particle transport code (Program version 2005)
      Alfredo Ferrari, Paola R. Sala, Alberto Fasso, Johannes Ranft
      Report number: CERN-2005-010, SLAC-R-773, INFN-TC-05-11, CERN-2005-10
      DOI: 10.2172/877507
    • PSB: Photonuclear Interactions of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays and their Astrophysical Consequences
      Puget, J. L. and Stecker, F. W. and Bredekamp, J. H.
      Astrophys. J. 205 (1976)

  • Photo-hadronic interactions and photo-pion production:

    • SOPHIA: Monte Carlo simulations of photohadronic processes in astrophysics
      A. Mucke, Ralph Engel, J.P. Rachen, R.J. Protheroe, Todor Stanev
      Comput.Phys.Commun. 124 (2000) 290-314
      astro-ph/9903478 [astro-ph]
      DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(99)00446-4
    • Improved photomeson model for interactions of cosmic ray nuclei
      Leonel Morejon, Anatoli Fedynitch, Denise Boncioli, Daniel Biehl, Walter Winter
      JCAP 11 (2019) 007
      arXiv:1904.07999
      DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/11/007 (publication)
      AstroPhoMes code
  • Air-shower models (if used in comparisons with Xmax):
    The hadronic interaction model Sibyll 2.3c and extensive air showers
    Felix Riehn, Ralph Engel, Anatoli Fedynitch, Thomas K. Gaisser, Todor Stanev
    arXiv:1912.03300
    Monte Carlo treatment of hadronic interactions in enhanced Pomeron scheme: I. QGSJET-II model
    Sergey Ostapchenko
    Phys.Rev. D83 (2011) 014018, arXiv:1010.1869