Anomalous Longitudinal Shower Profiles and Hadronic Interactions
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-03 v1
Abstract
The bulk of air showers initiated by very high energy cosmic rays exhibits a longitudinal development in depth with a single well-defined shower maximum. However, a small fraction of showers has a profile that differs considerably from this average behaviour. In extreme cases, such anomalous longitudinal profiles can even have two distinct shower maxima. We discuss the properties of the primary interactions that lead to such profiles. Simulations are used to estimate the rate of anomalous profiles in dependence of primary energy, mass, and characteristic features of hadronic multiparticle production at very high energies.
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@article{arxiv.1111.0504,
title = {Anomalous Longitudinal Shower Profiles and Hadronic Interactions},
author = {Colin Baus and Ralph Engel and Tanguy Pierog and Ralf Ulrich and Michael Unger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0504},
year = {2015}
}
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included in ICRC 2011 Conference Proceedings (icrc2011.ihep.ac.cn)