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Cosmic Ray composition around the knee from EAS electromagnetic and muon data

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We report the analysis of the Ne-Nmuon coincident events collected by the MACRO/EAS-TOP collaboration at the Gran Sasso Laboratories. The result points to a primary composition becoming heavier around the knee of the primary spectrum (in the energy region 10**15-10**16 eV). The result is in very good agreement with the measurements of EAS-TOP alone at the surface, wich detects muons with energy Emuon > 1 GeV and uses the same (QGSJET) interaction model.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0112473,
  title  = {Cosmic Ray composition around the knee from EAS electromagnetic and muon data},
  author = {The EAS-TOP and MACRO Collaborations},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0112473},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Contribution to TAUP2001, Sep. 8-11 2001, Assergi, Italy

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