Tomislav Terzić from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Rijeka carried out a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L’Aquila, where he was hosted by Denise Boncioli and Francesco Salamida. The mission titled “Influence of QG phenomenological models on particle shower development” focused on comparing the Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) studies using cosmic rays and gamma rays with the goal of finding a common ground between these two cosmic messengers. Doubly special relativity (DSR) was discussed as an alternative to LIV and the possibility of testing DSR on the propagation of very high energy photons.
The team was joined by Caterina Trimarelli, a collaborator from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, to discuss a possibility of introducing LIV in the particle shower simulation software CORSIKA. Following the STSM, the team met the CORSIKA developers and agreed to collaborate on this task. Stay tuned to see the outcomes of this collaboration.
