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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

The lateral distribution function (LDF) for coherent electromagnetic radiation from air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is calculated using a macroscopic description. A new expression is derived to calculate the coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-28 Krijn D. de Vries , Ad M. van den Berg , Olaf Scholten , Klaus Werner

The Cherenkov light produced in air showers largely contributes to the signal observed in ground-based gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observatories. Yet, no description of this phenomenon is available covering both regions of small and large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Luan Arbeletche , Vitor de Souza

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

Particle lateral distributions were investigated in cosmic ray air showers with energy $E_0 \simeq 10^{18}$ eV registered at the Yakutsk array with surface and underground scintillation detectors with $\simeq 1 \times \sec\theta$~GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 A. V. Glushkov , K. G. Lebedev , A. V. Sabourov

In terms of the quark-gluon string model the analysis of the classic procedure to estimate the energy of giant air showers with help of the parameter s(600) (a density of energy deposition in the scintillator at a distance of 600 m from the…

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

The development of a 3-dimensional simulation for Cherenkov photon emissions in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is reported in this paper. CORSIKA is the most widely used Monte-Carlo generator for the description of EAS, but it is not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-13 João Espadanal , Patrícia Gonçalves

The general aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced by different primary particles precisely by. protons, Helium, Iron, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Calcium,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mishev , J. Stamenov

The particle lateral distribution function (LDF) of air showers at a given altitude is sensitive to the mass composition and primary energy of cosmic rays. Studies of the LDF are difficult to perform due to experimental effects such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-22 J. A. Morales-Soto , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , J. D. Álvarez

The reconstruction of cosmic-ray-induced extensive air showers with a non-imaging Cherenkov detector array requires knowledge of the Cherenkov yield of any given air shower for a given set of shower parameters. Although air showers develop…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Isaac Buckland , Douglas Bergman

Measurements of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov photons with the wide-angle atmospheric Cherenkov light detector array AIROBICC and of the charged particle lateral distribution with the scintillator matrix of the HEGRA air-shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Arqueros , The HEGRA Collaboration

The normalization constant of the lateral distribution function (LDF) of an extensive air shower is a monotonous (almost linear) increasing function of the energy of the primary. Therefore, the interpolated signal at some fixed distance…

We present results of an improved analysis of the experimental data of the EAS Cherenkov array Tunka-25. A new function to fit the Cherenkov light lateral distribution LDF at core distances from 0 to 350 m has been developed on the base of…

We have investigated some features of the density and arrival time distributions of Cherenkov photons in extensive air showers using the CORSIKA simulation package. The main thrust of this study is to see the effect of hadronic interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 P. Hazarika , U. D. Goswami , V. R. Chitnis , B. S. Acharya , G. S. Das , B. B. Singh , R. J. Britto

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

In this paper we present a new method for ground based gamma ray astronomy based only on atmospheric Cherenkov light flux analysis. The Cherenkov light flux densities in extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by different primaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mishev , S. Mavrodiev , J. Stamenov

A method for fast simulation of the Cherenkov light generated by electromagnetic showers is described. The parametrization for the longitudinal profile is used and fluctuations and correlations of the parameters are taken into account in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Bezrukov , A. V. Butkevich

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