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EditorialComputational Methods for High Energy Physics

Carlo Cattani,1 Mehmet Bektasoglu,2 and Gongnan Xie3

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy2 Sakarya University, 54187 Sakarya, Turkey3 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. Thepublication of this article was funded by SCOAP3.

New discoveries in high energy physics are leading to someintriguing and complex methods of analysis which demandfor extremely advanced computational approaches. In orderto face the complexity of the contemporary frontiers ofPhysics, computational methods and algorithms are becom-ing more and more important for a truthful interpretationof physical results. So that the computational tools are thekey point for the proper understanding of physical results.Modern algorithms to be used in robust computer simu-lations and complex computations are then the pillars ofthe physical theory. Since the birth of the quantum theory,general relativity or astrophysical problems, researchers weredealing with problems where the physical evidence has beenshown only as a consequence of advanced computationalmethods. Thus the computational approach became not onlythe most representative of any modern physical theory butalso the epistemological setting of any modern physicaltheory.

Recent discoveries in high energy physics have openednew frontiers in Science and technologies, thus increasingthe interests for new challenging computational methods.It should be noted that this interest is not restricted tohigh energy physics although many areas of modern physicsis covered by this field. Research fields like cosmic rays,dark matter, neutrino physics, and so forth are subjects ofinterest for many scientists over the world. Together withexperimental physics, computational methods like Monte-Carlo simulations represent very important and useful toolsfor a better understanding of many phenomena. Duringthe last decades, an increasing huge number of algorithmsand simulation codes have been developed but not yet

fully explored, from the point of view of their physical-mathematical consequences. Some of them are focusingon some general aspects of fundamental research (such asGEANT 4, FLUKA, etc.) while some others are mainlydevoted to different areas of interest like CORSIKA, AIRESin cosmic rays theory and GENIE in neutrino physics. Eachsimulation code is based on several interactionmodels at highor low energy (e.g., QGSJET, EPOS, QGSP, etc.). Each modelis based on the results obtained at different laboratories overthe world, and the parameters are extrapolated to energieshigher than an experiment could reach.

The main goal of this special issue is to bring togetherimportant information about modern simulation codes andto collect the main streams in the computational methodsdevoted to high energy problems, such as Monte-Carlo toolsand interaction models. In this issue we have collected someoriginal research papers on the frontier of computationalphysics covering a wide range of topics.

We have invited scientists active in the field to contributewith original research papers or review papers (both exper-imental and theoretical), which have included: Methods,algorithms, and codes, which have been discussed in thepapers of F. Pop on “High performance numerical computingfor high energy physics: a new challenge for big data science”;S. V. Chekanov and M. Erickson, on “A nonparametric peakfinder algorithm and its application in searches for newphysics”; M. Dima, “Computational determination of thedirac-theory adjunctator”; Y. Zhao, D. Baleanu, C. Cattani,De-Fu Cheng, and Xiao-Jun Yang, “Maxwell’s equations oncantor sets: a local fractional approach”; Ming Li, S. C. Lim,C. Cattani, and M. Scalia, “Characteristic roots of a class of

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fractional oscillators”; Jinsong Leng, QixunGuo, and TingzhuHuang, “The duals of fusion frames for experimental datatransmission coding of high energy physics”.

The paper of Turgay Korkut “FLUKAMonte Carlo simu-lations about cosmic rays interactions with kaidunmeteorite”,deals with Astrophysics and cosmic rays, while Cosmologyis the main concerns of the papers of Alina Khaybullina,Ramil Izmailov, Kamal K. Nandi, and Carlo Cattani “Regularsolutions in vacuumbrans-dicke theory compared to vacuumEinstein theory”, and Ming Li and Wei Zhao “Essay onKolmogorov law of minus 5 over 3 viewed with golden ratio”.

Related nonlinear mathematical models and methodsand high energy questions, such as neutrino, photon, quan-tized energy, are discussed in the papers of Jun-Hui Kang,Ya-Zhou Wang, and Bao-Chun Li “Angular dependenceof Meson production for different photon beam energies”;Mihai O. Dima, Yuri N. Pepelyshev, and Lachin Tayibov“Neutron noise analysis with flash-fourier algorithm at theIBR-2M reactor”; Bing Chen, Ke-Wei Wei, and Ailin Zhang“X(1870) and 𝜂

2(1870): which can be assigned as a hybrid

state?”; Fu-Hu Liu, Ya-Hui Chen, Hua-Rong Wei, and Bao-Chun Li “Transverse momentum distributions of final-stateparticles produced in soft excitation process in high energycollisions”; Malika Betrouche, Mustapha Maamache, andJeong Ryeol Choi, “Three-dimensional dirac oscillator withminimal length: novel phenomena for quantized energy”;Andreea Rodica Sterian, “Numerical simulations on non-linear dynamics in lasers as related high energy physicsphenomena”; Halil Arslan and Mehmet Bektasoglu, “Geant4simulation study of deep undergroundmuons: vertical inten-sity and angular distribution”; Bogdan Mitrica “Design studyof an underground detector for measurements of the differ-ential muon flux”; Cristian Toma, “Wavelets-computationalaspects of sterian realistic approach to uncertainty principlein high energy physics: a transient approach”; Xian Wang,HiroyukiHirano,GongnanXie, andDingXu “VOFmodelingand analysis of the segmented flow in Y-shaped microchan-nels for microreactor systems”; Alina-Mihaela Badescu andAlexandra Saftoiu, “Radio-wave propagation in salt domes:implications for a UHE cosmic neutrino detector”.

Although awide range of topics are touched upon, it is notpossible to cover the entire field of computational methods inhigh energy physics into a single journal issue, also becauseof the continuous further progress both in the computationalmethods and in the high energy physics fields. We hope thatthis topics could be continued to track the updated trendsyears by years.

Finally, we would like to express our thanks to allthe contributors of this special issue for their support andcooperation and to the qualified reviewers who helped theauthors to improve the quality of their papers.

Carlo CattaniMehmet Bektasoglu

Gongnan Xie

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