EAS Longitudinal Development and the Knee
Astrophysics
2007-07-17 v1
Abstract
It is shown that Extensive Air Shower (EAS) longitudinal development has a critical point where an equilibrium between the main hadronic component and the secondary electromagnetic one exhibits a brake. This results in a change of slope in quasi-power law function . The latter leads to a knee in the EAS size spectrum at primary energy of about 100 TeV/nucleon. Many ``strange'' experimental results can be successfully explained in the frames of current approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.2231,
title = {EAS Longitudinal Development and the Knee},
author = {Yuri V. Stenkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2231},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk given at 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico (2007) 5 pages, 3 figures