Exploiting the geomagnetic distortion of inclined atmospheric showers

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.09.004" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.09.004</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exploiting the geomagnetic distortion of inclined atmospheric showers
Original language description
We propose a novel approach to the determination of the nature of ultra-high energy cosmic rays by exploiting the geomagnetic deviation of muons in nearly horizontal showers. The distribution of muons at ground level is well described by a simple parameterization providing a few shape parameters tightly correlated to X-max(mu), the depth of maximal muon production, which is a mass indicator tightly correlated to the usual parameter X-max, the depth of maximal development of the shower. We show that some constraints can be set on the predictions of hadronic models, especially by combining the geomagnetic distortion with standard measurements of the longitudinal profile. We discuss the precision needed to obtain significant results, and we propose a schematic layout of a detector.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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