CORSIKA-Talks/ICRC2023.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The CORSIKA 8 project aims to develop a versatile and modern framework for parti
 ### Validation of Electromagnetic Showers in CORSIKA 8
 The air shower simulation code CORSIKA has served as a key
 part of the simulation chain for numerous astroparticle physics
-experiments over the decades. Due to retirement of the original
+experiments over the past decades. Due to retirement of the original
 developers and the increasingly difficult maintenance of the monolithic
 Fortran code of CORSIKA, a new air shower simulation framework has been
 developed over the course of the last years in C++, called CORSIKA 8.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Besides the hadronic and muonic component, the electromagnetic component
 is one of the key constituents of an air shower. The cascade producing
 the electromagnetic component of an air shower is driven by
 bremsstrahlung and photoproduction of electron-positron pairs. At
-ultrahigh energies or large densities, the bremsstrahlung and pair
+ultrahigh energies or in media with large densities, the bremsstrahlung and pair
 production processes are suppressed by the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal
 (LPM) effect, which leads to more elongated showers compared to showers
 without the LPM suppression. Furthermore, photons at higher energies can
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ produce muon pairs or interact hadronically with nucleons in the target
 medium, producing a muon component in electromagnetic air showers.
 
 In this contribution, we compare electromagnetic showers simulated with
-the latest Fortran version of CORSIKA and CORSIKA 8. While earlier
+the latest Fortran version of CORSIKA and CORSIKA 8, which uses the library PROPOSAL for the electromagnetic component. While earlier
 validations of CORSIKA 8 electromagnetic showers focused on showers of
 lower energy, the recent implementation of the LPM effect, photo pair
 production of muons, and of photohadronic interactions allows now to