https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10883-z
Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory
The ARTI framework: cosmic rays atmospheric background simulations
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Escuela de Física, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Carrera 27 calle 9 Ciudad Universitaria, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, ACC.2 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Departamento de Fisica y Geología, Universidad de Pamplona, Km 1 Vía Bucaramanga Ciudad Universitaria Pamplona - Norte de Santander, Pamplona, Colombia
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Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Av. Gral Paz 1499, (1650) Villa Maipú, Argentina
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Instituto Sábato, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Av. Gral Paz 1499, (1650) Villa Maipú, Argentina
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Departamento de Física, Universidad de Los Andes, Núcleo Universitario Pedro Rincón Gutiérrez, La Hechicera, 5101, Mérida, Venezuela
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Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos - Grupo LAMP, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Pabellón cero-infinito, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EGA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio - LAMP Group, Universidad de Buenos Aires Consejo Nacionall de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Pabellón Cero-Infinito, Ciudad Universitaria (C1428EGA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Departamento de Física de Neutrones, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Av. E Bustillo 9500, (8400) San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Departamento de Física Médica, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Av. E Bustillo 9500, (8400) San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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Unidad de Informática Científica (temporal stay), CIEMAT, Av Complutense 40, (28040) Madrid, Spain
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hernan.asorey@iteda.cnea.gov.ar
Received:
8
December
2021
Accepted:
7
October
2022
Published online:
12
November
2022
ARTI is a complete framework designed to simulate the signals produced by the secondary particles emerging from the interaction of single, multiple, and even from the complete flux of primary cosmic rays with the atmosphere. These signals are simulated for any particle detector located at any place (latitude, longitude and altitude), including the real-time atmospheric, geomagnetic and detector conditions. Formulated through a sequence of codes written in C++, Fortran, Bash and Perl, it provides an easy-to-use integration of three different simulation environments: MagnetoCosmics, CORSIKA and Geant4. These tools evaluate the geomagnetic field effects on the primary flux and simulate atmospheric showers of cosmic rays and the detectors’ response to the secondary flux of particles. In this work, we exhibit the usage of the ARTI framework by calculating the total expected signal flux at eight selected sites of the Latin American Giant Observatory: a cosmic ray Observatory all over Latin America covering a wide range of altitudes, latitudes and geomagnetic rigidities. ARTI will also calculate the signal flux expected during the sudden occurrence of a gamma-ray burst or the flux of energetic photons originating from steady gamma sources. It also compares these fluxes with the expected background when they are detected in a single water Cherenkov detector deployed in a high-altitude site. Furthermore, by using ARTI, it is possible to calculate in a very precise way the expected flux of high-energetic muons and other secondaries at the ground level and to inject them through geological structures for muography applications.
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