Applying Extensive Air Shower Universality to Ground Detector Data
Astrophysics
2007-07-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Air shower universality states that the electromagnetic part of hadron-induced extensive air showers (EAS) can be completely described in terms of the primary energy and shower age. In addition, simulations show that the muon part is well characterized by an overall normalization which depends on the primary particle and hadronic interaction model. We investigate the consequences of EAS universality for ground arrays, which sample EAS at large core distances, and show how universality can be used to experimentally determine the muon content as well as the primary energy of cosmic ray air showers in a model-independent way.
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@article{arxiv.0706.1990,
title = {Applying Extensive Air Shower Universality to Ground Detector Data},
author = {Fabian Schmidt and Maximo Ave and Lorenzo Cazon and Aaron Chou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1990},
year = {2007}
}