Signals of phase transition in atmospheric showers
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We discuss collective effects like percolation, quark gluon plasma, or string fusion and their effect on the longitudinal development of high energy showers in air. It is shown that iron-air showers could develop more slowly than expected and produce the observed change in the slope of at the highest energies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805475,
title = {Signals of phase transition in atmospheric showers},
author = {C. Pajares and D. Sousa and R. A. Vázquez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805475},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 figures