# International Symposium on Future Directions in UHECR Physics

13-16 February 2012
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

## Using CORSIKA to quantify Telescope Array surface detector response

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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

CERN, Geneva
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### Speaker

Dr Benjamin Stokes (University of Utah)

### Description

Historically, studies of surface detector response have been severely limited by the inability to simulate charge density fluctuations at the distance scale of individual detector units. We present a two-prong solution. First, we have developed a technique that allows us to run the unmodified CORSIKA in parallel mode. This has allowed us to simulate $\sim100$ non-thinned CORSIKA showers in the $10^{19}$~eV epoch. Second, we have developed a dethinning algorithm that enables us to reconstruct the information lost using the CORSIKA thinning option. This algorithm is validated by comparison with the unthinned parallel showers mentioned above. By convolving a $10^{4}$ event shower library of dethinned CORSIKA events with the Telescope Array surface detector response, we will characterize our surface detector observational capabilities and present extensive Data/Monte Carlo comparisons.

### Primary author

Dr Benjamin Stokes (University of Utah)

### Co-authors

Mr Dmitri Ivanov (Rutgers University and University of Utah) Prof. Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)

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