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Comparing the signals measured by the surface and underground scintillator detectors of the Yakutsk Extensive Air Shower Array, we place upper limits on the integral flux and the fraction of primary cosmic-ray photons with energies E >…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-16 A. V. Glushkov , I. T. Makarov , M. I. Pravdin , I. E. Sleptsov , D. S. Gorbunov , G. I. Rubtsov , S. V. Troitsky

The simulation of the Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was perfomed with the CORSIKA code in the energy range 10^13-10^16 eV for configuration of the Tunka-25 EAS array. On the basis of this…

In this paper we analyze the energy evolution of the muon content of air showers between $10^{18.4}$ and $10^{19.6}$ eV to be able to determine the most likely mass composition scenario from future number of muons measurements. The energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-15 Raul Ribeiro Prado , Ruben Conceição , Mário Pimenta , Vitor de Souza

In the work the data of the Yakutsk complex EAS array and their comparison with calculation in the case of primary nuclei of different chemical elements are presented. The calculation by QGSJET model have been used interpreting experimental…

Cosmic-rays with energies up to $3\times10^{20}$ eV have been observed. The nuclear composition of these cosmic rays is unknown but if the incident nuclei are protons then the corresponding center of mass energy is $\sqrt{s_{nn}} = 700$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Spencer R. Klein

In this work, the effects of the extensive air showers (EAS) were described by estimating the lateral distribution function (LDF) at very high energies of various cosmic ray particles. LDF was simulated for charged particles such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-06 Hassanen Abdulhussaen Jassim , A. A. Al-Rubaiee , Iman Tarik Al-Alawy

Measurements of the muon content of extensive air showers at the highest energies show discrepancies compared to simulations as large as the differences between proton and iron. This so-called muon puzzle is commonly attributed to a lack of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Maximilian Reininghaus , Ralf Ulrich , Tanguy Pierog

Results obtained from an analysis of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays with energies in the region of $E_0 \ge 10^{17}$ eV over the period of continuous observations from 1974 to 2017 are presented. A refined expression for estimating the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 A. V. Glushkov , M. I. Pravdin , A. V. Sabourov

The energy spectrum and primary composition of cosmic rays with energy between $3\times 10^{14}$ and $3\times10^{16}\unit{eV}$ have been studied using the CASA-BLANCA detector. CASA measured the charged particle distribution of air showers,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Fowler , L. F. Fortson , C. C. H. Jui , D. B. Kieda , R. A. Ong , C. L. Pryke , P. Sommers

The results of the analysis of the NEVOD-DECOR data on the study of inclined muon bundles (with zenith angles from 40 to 85 degrees) of cosmic rays for the period from 2012 to 2023 are presented. An original method for studying the muon…

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

Cosmic rays with energies up to $10^{11}\,\mathrm{GeV}$ enter the atmosphere and produce showers of secondary particles. Inside these showers muons with high transverse momentum ($p_\mathrm{T} \gtrsim 2\,\mathrm{GeV}$) are produced from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Soldin

Experiments measuring cosmic rays above an energy of 10^14 eV deduce the energy and mass of the primary cosmic ray particles from air-shower simulations. We investigate the importance of hadronic interactions at low and high energies on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-04 I. C. Maris , R. Engel , X. Garrido , A. Haungs , M. Roth , R. Ulrich , M. Unger

The measurement of the flux of muons produced in cosmic ray air showers is essential for the study of primary cosmic rays. Such measurements are important in extensive air shower detectors to assess the energy spectrum and the chemical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-16 KM3NeT Collaboration

The fluxes of electrons, positrons, gammas, Cherenkov photons and muons in individual extensive air showers induced by the primary protons and helium, oxygen and iron nuclei at the level of observation have been estimated with help of the…

A new primary mass independent method of energy measurement has been developed by exploiting: a) the joint analysis of the shower size, obtained by EAS-TOP, and of the EAS atmospheric Cherenkov light lateral distribution, obtained by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Korosteleva , L. Kuzmichev , V. Prosin , B. Lubsandorzhiev , Eas-Top Collaboration

Although the origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays is still unknown, significant progress has been achieved in last decades with the construction of large arrays that are currently taking data. One of the most important pieces of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-16 D. Ravignani , A. D. Supanitsky

Current knowledge of the relative abundances and the energy spectra of the elemental mass groups of cosmic rays in the $10$ TeV - $1$ PeV interval is uncertain. This situation prevents carrying out precision tests that may lead to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez

The Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) was simulated with the CORSIKA code, in the energy range (10^13-10^16) eV. This simulation was performed for conditions and configurations of the Tunka EAS Cherenkov array for two…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 A. A. Al-Rubaiee , U. Hashim , Marwah M. , Y. Al-Douri

It has been shown that muon flux intensities calculated in terms of the EPOS LHC and EPOS 1.99 models at the energy of 10^4 GeV exceed the data of the classical experiments L3+Cosmic, MACRO and LVD on the spectra of atmospheric muons by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-28 L. G. Dedenko , G. F. Fedorova , T. M. Roganova
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