CORSIKA 8

c8-workshop-2023 CORSIKA
CORSIKA Workshop 2023

The CORSIKA 8 project, a rewrite of the CORSIKA functionality in modern C++, was started in 2018 [1,2] to provide the community with a well-maintained successor for the Fortran-based version of CORSIKA - which still fulfills the experimental needs of a broad community in astroparticle physics, but cannot accomodate several use cases. CORSIKA 8, for the first time, in particular provides the possibility for particle-cascade simulations in dense media and in complex geometries, which are required by several modern detection approaches.

CORSIKA 8 is organized as a "community effort", coordinated by KIT but with contributions by researchers from many different groups and backgrounds. Its development is being governed by a steering committee comprised of the following members (deputies):

  • Tim Huege tim.huege∂kit.edu project coordination
  • Dominik Baack (Alexander Sandrock): electromagnetic interactions
  • Tanguy Pierog (Felix Riehn): hadronic interactions
  • Marvin Gottowik (Max Reininghaus): software development
  • Augusto Alves jr. (Alice Faure): performance, parallelization
  • Lukas Nellen: deployment, continuous integration

Please find further details as well as the source code on the web page: https:// gitlab.iap.kit.edu/AirShowerPhysics/corsika/-/wikis/home

[1] R. Engel et al., Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 3 (2019) 2; arXiv:1808.08226
[2] T. Huege, M. Reininghaus for the CORSIKA 8 Collaboration, PoS(ICRC2023)310, arXiv:2308.05475
[3] J. M. Alameddine et al., Astropart. Phys. 166 (2025), 103072; arXiv:2409.15999