CORSIKA Shower Movies
The CORSIKA shower movies are animated .gif files and should be viewable with ordinary web browsers by clicking with the left button on the indicated file in the left column. If you want to install a movie on your own host (for faster movements), click with the right button to download the source file; these downloaded files are visualized on Linux installations by `gifview -a filename.gif' or `xanim filename.gif'.
These shower movies have been established from CORSIKA simulation results, which are arranged as animated .gif files to visualize the development of extensive air showers initiated by gamma, proton, or iron primaries with energies of 100 TeV/1 PeV. The movies have been created by J. Oehlschläger and R. Engel, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (2004).
The movies have been created by DM Jürgen Oehlschläger and Prof. Dr. Ralph Engel, Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP).
You must respect the copyrights and declare the author's names and the source if you embed a movie in your application.
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Movie, Size (MB)
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Initiating Particle,
Energy, Zenith Angle |
Viewing, Observer
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Energy Cut
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Remarks
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gamma
100 TeV, vertical |
side, co-moving
side, fixed upwards, co-moving |
0.1 GeV
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coloured particle types,
actual altitude [m] displayed |
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proton
100 TeV, vertical |
side, co-moving
side, fixed upwards, co-moving |
0.1 GeV
|
coloured particle types,
actual altitude [m] displayed |
|
|
iron
100 TeV, vertical |
side, co-moving
side, fixed upwards, co-moving |
0.1 GeV
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coloured particle types,
actual altitude [m] displayed |
|
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proton
100 TeV, vertical |
side, co-moving
side, fixed side, fixed upwards, co-moving |
0.1 GeV
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coloured particle types,
actual altitude [m] displayed, including longitudinal and actual lateral distribution |
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proton, 100 TeV, 30 deg
proton, 1 PeV, 30 deg |
side, fixed
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0.1 GeV
1 GeV |
coloured particle types,
actual altitude [m] displayed, hit detectors flashing |
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proton, 100 TeV, vertical
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perspective, fixed
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0.1 GeV
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traces of hadrons
traces of hadrons & muons traces of hadrons & muons & electrons |
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gamma, 1 PeV, vertical
proton, 1 PeV, vertical iron, 1 PeV, vertical |
perspective, fixed
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1 GeV
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traces of hadrons & muons & electrons
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- Other Shower Movies modeled with CORSIKA have been made available by M. F. Morales as QuickTime movies. More details you find here.
- More recent Shower Movies modeled with CORSIKA have been made available by A. Oshima.
Dieter Heck dieter.heck(at)partner.kit.edu