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We explore the feasibility of estimating primary cosmic ray composition at high energies from the study of two parameters of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) at ground and underground level with Monte Carlo simulations using the new EPOS and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-12 A. Tapia , D. Melo , F. Sánchez , A. Sedoski Croce , J. M. Figueira , B. García , N. González , M. Josebachuili , D. Ravignani , B. Wundheiler , A. Etchegoyen

The paper describes lateral density distributions of electrons and muons of cosmic ray extensive air showers (EAS) in the energy regime of the KASCADE experiment. Potential EAS observables are extracted while some suitable lateral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-04 Rajat K. Dey

Based on a Monte Carlo simulation study of vertical extensive air showers (EAS) at the KASCADE location we introduce a new simple observable $\eta_{\rho{(45;310)}}$ (in short $\eta_{\rho}$) - the ratio between two lateral electron densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Animesh Basak , Rajat K. Dey

Analyzing simulated extensive air shower (EAS) events generated with the Monte Carlo code CORSIKA, this paper critically studies the characteristics of lateral distribution of electrons in EAS around the knee energy region of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Rajat K. Dey , Sandip Dam

New analysis of lateral distributions (LD) of electrons, muons and charged particles in extensive air showers generated by $10^{15}-10^{19}$ eV cosmic rays has been made with respect to the scaling formalism for LD and air shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Roman Raikin , Tatyana Serebryakova , Nikolay Volkov , Anatoly Lagutin

A simple analytical argument is proposed for a possible explanation of the characteristics of the lateral shower age ($s$) of proton ($p$)/nuclei-initiated showers. The analytical argument states that lateral density distribution (LDD) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-05 Rajat K. Dey , Animesh Basak

Theoretical predictions for lateral distribution function of electrons in extensive air showers based on scaling formalism are presented. Our results are tested by comparison with AGASA experimental data taking into account the contribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Raikin , A. A. Lagutin , N. Inoue , A. Misaki

In this study, the necessity of the simulation study for exploring the interactions of ultra-high energy particles cosmic rays was examined. Different hadronic interaction models such as (SIBYLL, QGSJET, and EPOS) were simulated by using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Kadhom F. Fadhel , A. A. Al-Rubaiee

The lateral density distributions (LDD) of inclined cosmic ray air shower are asymmetric and the corresponding iso-density contours are of increasing eccentric ellipses with zenith angles of different showers. The polar asymmetry of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 Animesh Basak , Rajat K. Dey

Influence of shower fluctuations on the shape of lateral distribution of electrons in EAS of fixed size measured by scintillation counters is analyzed in framework of scaling formalism. Correction factors for the mean square radius of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-06 R. I. Raikin , A. A. Lagutin , A. V. Yushkov

The mass composition of high energy cosmic rays above $10^{17}$ eV is a crucial issue to solve some open questions in astrophysics such as the acceleration and propagation mechanisms. Unfortunately, the standard procedures to identify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Catalani , J. A. Chinellato , V. de Souza , J. Takahashi , G. M. S. Vasconcelos

Analyzing simulated EAS events generated with the CORSIKA code, the characteristics of lateral distribution of electrons in EAS around the knee energy region of the primary energy spectrum have been studied and compared with experimental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-29 R. K. Dey , A. Bhadra , J. N. Capdevielle

The concept of "age" as a parameter for the description of the state of development of high energy showers in the atmosphere has been in use in cosmic ray studies for several decades. In this work we briefly discuss how this concept,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paolo Lipari

A Monte Carlo (MC) simulation study of cosmic ray (CR) extensive air showers (EAS) has been carried out in the energy regime of the KASCADE experiment. From the characteristics of lateral distributions of electrons and muons of simulated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Rajat K Dey , Sandip Dam , Animesh Basak

On the basis of the scaling approach and CORSIKA simulations data the radial scale factor of lateral distribution of electrons in extensive air showers is confirmed as potentially effective primary mass estimator, and its sensitivity to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 R. Raikin , T. Serebryakova , A. Lagutin , N. Volkov

Extensive air showers (EAS) are a cascade of electromagnetic radiation and ionized particles that produced in the atmosphere through the interaction of a primary cosmic ray with the atom of nucleus in the air producing a huge amount of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-03 Hassanen Abdulhussaen Jassim , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Iman Tarik Al-Alawy

The simulation of Cherenkov photon's lateral density and arrival time distributions in Extensive Air Showers (EASs) was performed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range: 100 GeV to 100 TeV. On the basis of this simulation we obtained a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 P. Hazarika , G. S. Das , U. D. Goswami

Distinguishing $\gamma$-ray and hadron initiated extensive air showers (EAS) based on lateral distribution of electrons has been studied by detailed Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The possibility of using the local age parameter (LAP) of EAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-24 R. K. Dey , A. Bhadra

The simulation of the extensive air showers was performed by investigating the longitudinal development parameters (N and Xmax) by using AIRES system version 19.04.0. The simulation was performed at the energy range (10^18-10^20 eV) for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-04 Abbas Rahi Raham , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Majida H. Al-Kubaisy

A shape of lateral distribution for charged particles in events with energy above 10^19eV is considered. Two methods were used for individual LDF parametrization. In the first approach, the index of power was determined for generalized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-16 A. V. Sabourov , M. I. Pravdin , S. P. Knurenko
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