Study of hadronic component in air showers at Mt. Chacaltaya

An experiment to operate an air shower array, a burst detector (or a hadron calorimeter) and an emulsion chamber is under way at Mt. Chacaltaya (5,200 m, Bolivia), in order to study the hadron interactions and the primary cosmic rays in the energy region exceeding 10 15 eV. The number of hadrons in...

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Published in:Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement Proceedings supplement, 1999, Vol.75 (1), p.186-190
Main Authors: Aguirre, C., Aoki, H., Hashimoto, K., Honda, K., Inou, N., Kawasumi, N., Maeda, Y., Martinic, N., Matano, T., Ohmori, N., Ohsawa, A., Shinozaki, K., Tamada, M., Ticona, R., Tsushima, I., Yokoi, K.
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Language:English
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Summary:An experiment to operate an air shower array, a burst detector (or a hadron calorimeter) and an emulsion chamber is under way at Mt. Chacaltaya (5,200 m, Bolivia), in order to study the hadron interactions and the primary cosmic rays in the energy region exceeding 10 15 eV. The number of hadrons in the air shower, detected by the burst detector, indicates that the proton fraction among the primary cosmic rays exceeds 50%.
ISSN:0920-5632
1873-3832
DOI:10.1016/S0920-5632(99)00238-8