Anthony Michael Hillas

Alexander Michael Hillas (June 1932 – 26 November 2017)[1] was an English cosmic ray physicist. He is known for the Gaisser–Hillas function,[2] the Hillas parameters,[3] and MOCCA, a Monte Carlo computer code used for simulation of extensive air showers (EASs) in the energy range from 1012 (tera-) eV to 1021 (zetta-) eV.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Michael Hillas, 1932-2017". 21 December 2017.
  2. ^ Gaisser, T.K.; Hillas, A.M. (1977). "Reliability of the method of constant intensity cuts for reconstructing the average development of vertical showers". Proc. of 15th Int. Cosmic Ray Conf., 13–26 Aug 1977. Vol. 8. Plovdiv, Bulgaria. p. 353. Bibcode:1977ICRC....8..353G.
  3. ^ de Naurois, Mathieu; Rolland, Loïc (2009). "A stereoscopic semi-analytical model reconstruction of gamma-rays for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes". arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2610.
  4. ^ Hillas, A.M. (1997). "Shower simulation: Lessons from MOCCA". Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 52 (3): 29–42. Bibcode:1997NuPhS..52...29H. doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(96)00847-X.
  5. ^ Reininghaus, M.; Ulrich, R.; Pierog, T. (2021). "Chapter. Air shower genealogy for muon production". Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021), vol. 2. p. 463. doi:10.22323/1.395.0463. arXiv preprint