Ciencias con mención en Física
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Ítem Texto completo enlazado A study of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray propagation in one-dimensional simulations(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-02-15) Olivares Schneider, José Gabriel; Bazo Alba, José LuisCosmic Rays have come to play an important role in understanding the universe, and astroparticle physics has undergone major developments in the last few decades. As such, several observatories have been set up with the purpose of detecting these particles, and simulation frameworks have been developed in order to further analyze their behavior by creating highly variable environments and parameters. This work covers the essential theory required to study propagation of Ultra- High-Energy Cosmic Rays restricted to linear one-dimensional propagation only; this includes the primary methods of energy loss during propagation, mainly through reactions with the photon background like photo-pion production and photo-disintegration, and additional cosmological effects. The study was done using the CRPropa 3.0 simulation framework. To determine the best possible maximum energy for the simulations, initial trials were done by testing the GZK cutoff for multiple energy values, followed by an analysis of heavier nuclei propagation. As a final complete test run, a model of the cosmic ray spectrum for energies above 1018 eV was made based on two data sets, one made from the average composition of the whole CR energy spectrum, and the other from The Pierre-Auger Observatory measurements for the high energy range. The results showed that initial source composition was the determining factor in the shape of the CR spectrum. These initial simulations done in this work will set the ground for future more complex simulations and studies.Ítem Texto completo enlazado Desarrollo de un detector juguete basado en el experimento CMS para la búsqueda de partículas neutras con largo tiempo de vida(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020-09-11) Coll Saravia, Lucía Ximena; Jones Pérez, JoelThe Standard Model (SM) of particle physics consists in a description of all the known elemen-tary particles and their interactions. As far as it is known, the SM has passed all experimental tests, but presents some imperfections such as the presence of neutrino masses and the hierarchy problem. This encourages to probe theories beyond the Standard Model (BSM) that could bring solutions to these problems. An interesting proposal is to search for neutral long lived particles (LLP). These type of particles have long decay lengths and can be generated by a variety of BSM models such as Supersymmetry (SUSY), which proposes a solution to the hierarchy problem, and the Seesaw Mechanism that generates massive neutrinos. The detection of the decay products of LLPs would contribute to the discovery of new physics. The objective of this work is to develop a toy detector based on C++ and Pythia8 with the purpose of creating a tool for searches of neutral long lived particles. All the features, including the geometric characteristics and the particle accep- tance are constructed with information from the sub detectors of the CMS experiment. We use a Minimal SUSY process that violates R parity (RPVMSSM) to simulate processes producing LLPs in MadGraph5 and study the response of the toy detector. We conclude our simulation properly recreates important experimental conditions, and is suitable as a first step towards an international competitive particle physics tool.