ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 11 14 4 v 1 5 N ov 2 00 4 Hybrid Simulation of Cosmic Ray Air Showers
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Air shower simulations are essential for interpreting data from cosmic ray experiments. At highest energies though, a microscopic treatment of a whole shower is not possible any more, since it would require a huge amount of CPU-time. We review hybrid approaches of air shower simulation which try to overcome this problem without giving rise to artificial fluctuations as generated by the thinning algorithm.
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