Correlations between parameters of extended air showers and their proper use in analyses
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In air shower experiments information about the initial cosmic ray particle or about the shower development is obtained by exploiting the correlations between the quantities of interest and the directly measurable quantities. It is shown how these correlations are properly treated in order to obtain unbiased results. As an example, the measurement of the average penetration depth as a function of the shower energy is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9908029,
title = {Correlations between parameters of extended air showers and their proper use in analyses},
author = {Wolfgang Wittek and Harald Kornmayer and The HEGRA Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9908029},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 Pages, 4 Figures; to appear in the proceedings of the 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, August 1999