Interpretation of measurements of the number of muons in extensive air shower experiments
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.07.003" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.07.003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.07.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.astropartphys.2016.07.003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Interpretation of measurements of the number of muons in extensive air shower experiments
Original language description
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 and primary mass evolution of the number of muons is studied based on the Heitler-Matthews model and Monte Carlo simulation of the air shower. A simple model to describe the evolution of the first and second moments of number of muons distributions is proposed and validated. An analysis approach based on the comparison between this model's predictions and data to discriminate among a set of composition scenarios is presented and tested with simulations. It is shown that the composition scenarios can be potentially discriminated under the conditions imposed by the method.n
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10303 - Particles and field physics
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Astroparticle Physics
ISSN
0927-6505
e-ISSN
1873-2852
Volume of the periodical
83
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
40-52
UT code for WoS article
000382338700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84979205102