A New Method of Simulation of Cosmic-ray Ensembles Initiated by Synchrotron Radiation
Oleksandr Sushchov,
Piotr Homola,
Marcin Piekarczyk,
Ophir Ruimi,
Kévin Almeida Cheminant,
Olaf Bar,
Łukasz Bibrzycki,
Bohdan Hnatyk,
Péter Kovács,
Bartosz Łozowski,
Michał Niedźwiecki,
Sławomir Stuglik,
Arman Tursunov,
Tadeusz Wibig
Affiliations
Oleksandr Sushchov
Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
Piotr Homola
Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
Marcin Piekarczyk
Institute of Computer Science, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
Ophir Ruimi
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
Kévin Almeida Cheminant
Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
Olaf Bar
Institute of Computer Science, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
Łukasz Bibrzycki
Institute of Computer Science, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
Bohdan Hnatyk
Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Observatorna Str. 3, 04053 Kyiv, Ukraine
Péter Kovács
Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary
Bartosz Łozowski
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 9, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
Michał Niedźwiecki
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications, Cracow University of Technology, Warszawska 24, 31-155 Kraków, Poland
Sławomir Stuglik
Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
Arman Tursunov
Research Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava, Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-74601 Opava, Czech Republic
Tadeusz Wibig
Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, University of ódź, Pomorska 149/153, 90-236 ódź, Poland
Cosmic rays interact with fields and background radiation as they propagate in space, producing particle cascades of various sizes, shapes and constituents. The potential observation of at least parts of such phenomena, referred to as cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE), from Earth would open a new channel of cosmic-ray investigation, since it might be a manifestation of fundamental symmetries of nature. Research dedicated to CRE is one of the main scientific objectives of the Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) Collaboration, and with this article we address one of the cornerstones of the relevant scientific program: the simulation method dedicated to CRE studies. Here we focus on CRE resulting from synchrotron radiation by high energy electrons as one of the most prevalent energy loss processes. Providing the example of simulation output analysis, we demonstrate the advantages of our approach as well as discuss the possibility of generalization of current research.
