TIERRAS: A package to simulate high energy cosmic ray showers underground, underwater and under-ice
Description
Abstract In this paper we present TIERRAS, a Monte Carlo simulation program based on the well-known AIRES air shower simulations system that enables the propagation of particle cascades underground, providing a tool to study particles arriving underground from a primary cosmic ray on the atmosphere or to initiate cascades directly underground and propagate them, exiting into the atmosphere if necessary. We show several cross-checks of its results against CORSIKA, FLUKA, GEANT and ZHS simulations and w... Title of program: TIERRAS for AIRES Catalogue Id: AEFO_v1_0 Nature of problem Simulation of high and ultra high energy underground particle showers. Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data AEFO_v1_0; TIERRAS for AIRES; 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.09.022 This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)