Investigation of the properties of the flux and interaction of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays by the method of local-muon-density spectra
2010
17 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Atom.Nucl. 73 (2010) 1852-1869,
- Yad.Fiz. 73 (2010) 1904-1920
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Abstract: (Springer)
A new method for studying extensive air showers is considered. The method is based on the phenomenology of the localmuon density. It is shown that measurement ofmuon-density spectra at various zenith angles makes it possible to obtain information a bout the energy spectrum, mass composition, and interaction of cosmic rays over a broad range of energies (10(15)-10(18) eV) by using a single array of comparatively small size. The results obtained from a comparison of experimental data on muon bundles f rom the DECOR coordinate detector with the results of simulation performed under various assumptions on the properties of the primary flux and for various hadron-interaction models are presented, and possible versions of the interpretation of these result s are discussed.- cosmic radiation: primary
- cosmic radiation: interaction
- showers: air
- interaction: model
- muon: density
- muon: energy
- muon: energy spectrum
- cosmic radiation: flux
- cosmic radiation: UHE
- cosmic radiation: energy
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