Alternative description of particle shower longitudinal profile
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-05-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
An alternative parametrization of the particle shower longitudinal profile is presented. The accuracy of the obtained shower profile description is about 2-3% for the 0-1500 g/cm^2 atmosphere slant depths and primary H, He,... Fe nuclei in the 1 PeV-10 EeV energy range. It is shown that the shape of shower profile depends only on the nucleon energy, whereas the maximum shower size also depends on the energy of the parental nucleus. Results are based on the CORSIKA simulated shower profiles and are presented in comparison with the Gaisser-Hillas parametrization.
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@article{arxiv.1503.03037,
title = {Alternative description of particle shower longitudinal profile},
author = {Samvel Ter-Antonyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03037},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 8 figures