Speaker
Prof.
Mario Bertaina
(University of Torino and INFN Torino)
Description
Cosmic Rays above 10^17 eV allow studying hadronic interactions at energies that can not be attained at accelerators yet.
At the same time hadronic interaction models have to be applied to
the cosmic-ray induced air-shower cascades in atmosphere to infer the nature of cosmic rays. The reliability of air-shower simulations has become the source of one of the largest systematic uncertainty in the interpretation of cosmic-ray data due to the uncertainties in modeling the hadronic interaction driving the air-shower development.
In this presentation a review will be done on the current understanding of the nature of cosmic rays above 10^17 eV, and on role of air showers as probes to test hadronic interaction models at energies well beyond those achieved at accelerators.
Primary author
Prof.
Mario Bertaina
(University of Torino and INFN Torino)
