Exploiting the geomagnetic distortion of inclined atmospheric showers

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.09.004" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.09.004</a>

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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Exploiting the geomagnetic distortion of inclined atmospheric showers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Exploiting the geomagnetic distortion of inclined atmospheric showers

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10303 - Particles and field physics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Astroparticle Physics

ISSN

0927-6505

e-ISSN

1873-2852

Svazek periodika

74

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

February

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

14-26

Kód UT WoS článku

000366784200003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84943608120