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Advances in High Energy Physics Computational Methods for High Energy Physics Guest Editors: Carlo Cattani, Mehmet Bektasoglu, and Gongnan Xie Computational Methods for High Energy Physics Advances in High Energy Physics Computational Methods for High Energy Physics Guest Editors: Carlo Cattani, Mehmet Bektasoglu, and Gongnan Xie Copyright © 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Advances in High Energy Physics.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Botio Betev, Switzerland Ian Jack, UK Neil Spooner, UK Duncan L. Carlsmith, USA Filipe R. Joaquim, Portugal Luca Stanco, Italy Kingman Cheung, Taiwan Piero Nicolini, Germany EliasC.Vagenas,Kuwait Shi-Hai Dong, Mexico Seog H. Oh, USA Nikos Varelas, USA Edmond C. Dukes, USA Sandip Pakvasa, USA Kadayam S. Viswanathan, Canada Amir H. Fatollahi, Iran Anastasios Petkou, Greece Yau W. Wah, USA Frank Filthaut, The Netherlands Alexey A. Petrov, USA Moran Wang, China Joseph Formaggio, USA Frederik Scholtz, South Africa Gongnan Xie, China Chao-Qiang Geng, Taiwan George Siopsis, USA Hong-Jian He, China Terry Sloan, UK Contents Computational Methods for High Energy Physics, Carlo Cattani, Mehmet Bektasoglu, and Gongnan Xie Volume 2014, Article ID 458025, 2 pages High Performance Numerical Computing for High Energy Physics: A New Challenge for Big Data Science,FlorinPop Volume 2014, Article ID 507690, 13 pages Angular Dependence of Meson Production for Different Photon Beam Energies, Jun-Hui Kang, Ya-Zhou Wang, and Bao-Chun Li Volume 2014, Article ID 837121, 6 pages Radio-Wave Propagation in Salt Domes: Implications for a UHE Cosmic Neutrino Detector, Alina-Mihaela Badescu and Alexandra Saftoiu Volume 2014, Article ID 901434, 9 pages A Nonparametric Peak Finder Algorithm and Its Application in Searches for New Physics, S. V. Chekanov and M. Erickson Volume 2013, Article ID 162986, 4 pages Neutron Noise Analysis with Flash-Fourier Algorithm at the IBR-2M Reactor,MihaiO.Dima, Yuri N. Pepelyshev, and Lachin Tayibov Volume 2013, Article ID 821709, 6 pages FLUKA Monte Carlo Simulations about Cosmic Rays Interactions with Kaidun Meteorite, Turgay Korkut Volume 2013, Article ID 826730, 7 pages Computational Determination of the Dirac-Theory Adjunctator,M.Dima Volume 2013, Article ID 391741, 4 pages (1870) and 2(1870): Which Can Be Assigned as a Hybrid State?,BingChen,Ke-WeiWei, and Ailin Zhang Volume 2013, Article ID 217858, 14 pages Maxwell’s Equations on Cantor Sets: A Local Fractional Approach, Yang Zhao, Dumitru Baleanu, CarloCattani,De-FuCheng,andXiao-JunYang Volume 2013, Article ID 686371, 6 pages Transverse Momentum Distributions of Final-State Particles Produced in Soft Excitation Process in High Energy Collisions, Fu-Hu Liu, Ya-Hui Chen, Hua-Rong Wei, and Bao-Chun Li Volume 2013, Article ID 965735, 15 pages Three-Dimensional Dirac Oscillator with Minimal Length: Novel Phenomena for Quantized Energy, Malika Betrouche, Mustapha Maamache, and Jeong Ryeol Choi Volume 2013, Article ID 383957, 10 pages Numerical Simulations on Nonlinear Dynamics in Lasers as Related High Energy Physics Phenomena, Andreea Rodica Sterian Volume 2013, Article ID 516396, 8 pages Regular Solutions in Vacuum Brans-Dicke Theory Compared to Vacuum Einstein Theory, Alina Khaybullina, Ramil Izmailov, Kamal K. Nandi, and Carlo Cattani Volume 2013, Article ID 367029, 7 pages The Duals of Fusion Frames for Experimental Data Transmission Coding of High Energy Physics, Jinsong Leng, Qixun Guo, and Tingzhu Huang Volume 2013, Article ID 837129, 9 pages Characteristic Roots of a Class of Fractional Oscillators, Ming Li, S. C. Lim, Carlo Cattani, and Massimo Scalia Volume 2013, Article ID 853925, 7 pages Geant4 Simulation Study of Deep Underground Muons: Vertical Intensity and Angular Distribution, Halil Arslan and Mehmet Bektasoglu Volume 2013, Article ID 391573, 4 pages Design Study of an Underground Detector for Measurements of the Differential Muon Flux, Bogdan Mitrica Volume 2013, Article ID 641584, 9 pages EssayonKolmogorovLawofMinus5over3ViewedwithGoldenRatio,MingLiandWeiZhao Volume 2013, Article ID 680678, 3 pages Wavelets-Computational Aspects of Sterian Realistic Approach to Uncertainty Principle in High Energy Physics: A Transient Approach,CristianToma Volume 2013, Article ID 735452, 6 pages VOF Modeling and Analysis of the Segmented Flow in Y-Shaped Microchannels for Microreactor Systems, Xian Wang, Hiroyuki Hirano, Gongnan Xie, and Ding Xu Volume 2013, Article ID 732682, 6 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in High Energy Physics Volume 2014, Article ID 458025, 2 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/458025 Editorial Computational Methods for High Energy Physics Carlo Cattani,1 Mehmet Bektasoglu,2 and Gongnan Xie3 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy 2 Sakarya University, 54187 Sakarya, Turkey 3 Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China Correspondence should be addressed to Carlo Cattani; [email protected] Received 31 March 2014; Accepted 31 March 2014; Published 24 April 2014 Copyright © 2014 Carlo Cattani et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3. New discoveries in high energy physics are leading to some fully explored, from the point of view of their physical- intriguing and complex methods of analysis which demand mathematical consequences. Some of them are focusing for extremely advanced computational approaches. In order on some general aspects of fundamental research (such as to face the complexity of the contemporary frontiers of GEANT4,FLUKA,etc.)whilesomeothersaremainly Physics, computational methods and algorithms are becom- devoted to different areas of interest like CORSIKA, AIRES ing more and more important for a truthful interpretation in cosmic rays theory and GENIE in neutrino physics. Each of physical results. So that the computational tools are the simulation code is based on several interaction models at high key point for the proper understanding of physical results. or low energy (e.g., QGSJET, EPOS, QGSP, etc.). Each model Modern algorithms to be used in robust computer simu- is based on the results obtained at different laboratories over lations and complex computations are then the pillars of the world, and the parameters are extrapolated to energies the physical theory. Since the birth of the quantum theory, higher than an experiment could reach. general relativity or astrophysical problems, researchers were The main goal of this special issue is to bring together dealing with problems where the physical evidence has been important information about modern simulation codes and shown only as a consequence of advanced computational to collect the main streams in the computational methods methods. Thus the computational approach became not only devoted to high energy problems, such as Monte-Carlo tools the most representative of any modern physical theory but andinteractionmodels.Inthisissuewehavecollectedsome also the epistemological setting of any modern physical original research papers on the frontier of computational theory. physics covering a wide range of topics. Recent discoveries in high energy physics have opened We have invited scientists active in the field to contribute new frontiers in Science and technologies, thus increasing with original research papers or review papers (both exper- the interests for new challenging computational methods. imental and theoretical), which have included: Methods, It should be noted that this interest is not restricted to algorithms, and codes, which have been discussed in the high energy physics although many areas of modern physics papers of F.Pop on “High performance numerical computing is covered by this field. Research fields like cosmic rays, for high energy physics: a new challenge for big data science”; dark matter, neutrino physics, and so forth are subjects of S. V. Chekanov and M. Erickson, on “A nonparametric peak interest for many scientists over the world. Together with finder algorithm and its application in searches for new experimental physics, computational methods like Monte- physics”; M. Dima, “Computational determination of the Carlo simulations represent very important and useful tools dirac-theory adjunctator”; Y. Zhao, D. Baleanu, C. Cattani, for a better understanding of many phenomena. During De-Fu Cheng, and Xiao-Jun Yang, “Maxwell’s equations on the last decades, an increasing huge number of algorithms cantor sets: a local fractional approach”; Ming Li, S. C. Lim, and simulation codes have been developed but not yet C. Cattani, and M. Scalia, “Characteristic roots of a class of 2 Advances in High Energy Physics fractional oscillators”; Jinsong Leng, QixunGuo, and Tingzhu Huang, “The duals of fusion frames for experimental data transmission coding of high energy physics”. ThepaperofTurgayKorkut“FLUKAMonteCarlosimu- lations about cosmic rays interactions with kaidun meteorite”, deals with Astrophysics and cosmic rays, while Cosmology isthemainconcernsofthepapersofAlinaKhaybullina, Ramil Izmailov, Kamal K. Nandi, and Carlo Cattani “Regular solutions in vacuum brans-dicke
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