The technique of adjoint cascade equations has been applied to calculate the properties of extremely high energy gamma-rays in the energy range 10^18--10^22 eV with taking into account the LPM effect and interactions of gamma-rays with the geomagnetic field. Such characteristics are analysed as the electron and muon contents at the observation level, the electron cascade curves, the lateral distribution functions of photoproduced muons.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0107592,
title = {Characteristics of air showers created by extremely high energy gamma-rays},
author = {A. V. Plyasheshnikov and F. A. Aharonian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0107592},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
36 pages, 19 figures, submitted to J.Phys.G: Nucl.Part.Phys