基于混合探测器的宇宙射线组成测量（10^17 eV至10^18 eV）
天体物理学
2008-11-26 v1
摘要
研究了能量在 eV 至 eV 范围内的宇宙射线平均质量组成。本研究采用由 High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) 原型装置和 MIA muon阵列组成的混合探测器。对测量的 shower最大深度 以及固定核心位置处的 muon密度 随能量变化的特征进行了观测。同时以 和 的组合方式评估了射线组成。结果显示，随着能量增加，射线组成从重元素向轻元素混合物的比例发生变化。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911144,
title = {A Multi-Component Measurement of the Cosmic Ray Composition Between 10^{17} eV and 10^{18} eV},
author = {T. Abu-Zayyad and K. Belov and D. J. Bird and J. Boyer and Z. Cao and M. Catanese and G. F. Chen and R. W. Clay and C. E. Covault and J. W. Cronin and H. Y. Dai and B. R. Dawson and J. W. Elbert and B. E. Fick and L. F. Fortson and J. W. Fowler and K. G. Gibbs and M. A. K. Glasmacher and K. D. Green and Y. Ho and A. Huang and C. C. Jui and M. J. Kidd and D. B. Kieda and B. C. Knapp and S. Ko and C. G. Larsen and W. Lee and E. C. Loh and E. J. Mannel and J. Matthews and J. N. Matthews and B. J. Newport and D. F. Nitz and R. A. Ong and K. M. Simpson and J. D. Smith and D. Sinclair and P. Sokolsky and P. Sommers and C. Song and J. K. K. Tang and S. B. Thomas and J. C. van der Velde and L. R. Wiencke and C. R. Wilkinson and S. Yoshida and X. Z. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911144},
year = {2008}
}
备注
14 pages including 3 figures in revtex epsf style, submited to PRL