Program title: TIERRAS for AIRES
Catalogue identifier: AEFO_v1_0
Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEFO_v1_0.html
Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland
Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html
No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 36 489
No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 3 261 669
Distribution format: tar.gz
Programming language: Fortran 77 and C
Computer: PC, Alpha, IBM, HP, Silicon Graphics and Sun workstations
Operating system: Linux, DEC Unix, AIX, SunOS, Unix System V
RAM: 22 Mb bytes
Classification: 1.1
External routines: TIERRAS requires AIRES 2.8.4 to be installed on the system. AIRES 2.8.4 can be downloaded from http://www.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/auger/aires/eg_AiresDownload.html.
Nature of problem: Simulation of high and ultra high energy underground particle showers.
Solution method: Modification of the AIRES 2.8.4 code to accommodate underground conditions.
Restrictions: In AIRES some processes that are not statistically significant on the atmosphere are not simulated. In particular, it does not include muon photonuclear processes. This imposes a limitation on the application of this package to a depth of 1 km of standard rock (or 2.5 km of water equivalent). Neutrinos are not tracked on the simulation, but their energy is taken into account in decays.
Running time: A TIERRAS for AIRES run of a 1020 eV shower with statistical sampling (thinning) below 1012 eV and 0.2 weight factor (see [1]) uses approximately 1 h of CPU time on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 at 2.4 GHz. It uses only one core, so 4 simultaneous simulations can be run on this computer. Aires includes a spooling system to run several simultaneous jobs of any type.
References:
[1] S. Sciutto, AIRES 2.6 User Manual, http://www.fisica.unlp.edu.ar/auger/aires/.