Muons in Extensive Air Showers with Energy above 1017 eV According to the Long Standing Studies at the Yakutsk Array

lateral distribution of muons was studied in extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energy above 10 17 eV. The study is based on the experimental data of underground scintillation detectors with 1-GeV energy threshold collected during the continuous observational period lasting from 198...

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Published in:Physics of atomic nuclei 2019, Vol.82 (6), p.669-673
Main Authors: Glushkov, A. V., Saburov, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arrays
Computer simulation
Cosmic ray showers
Cosmic rays
Density
Detectors
Elementary Particles and Fields
Interaction models
Muons
Particle and Nuclear Physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Scintillation
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Summary:lateral distribution of muons was studied in extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energy above 10 17 eV. The study is based on the experimental data of underground scintillation detectors with 1-GeV energy threshold collected during the continuous observational period lasting from 1986 to 2017. Experimentally measured values of muon density are compared to results of simulations performed for primary protons and iron nuclei within the framework of four ultra-high energy hadronic interaction models. The density of particles with 1-GeV threshold obtained in simulations was then converted to the signal of ground-shielded scintillation detectors of the array. Studying the features of the resulting muon lateral distribution has allowed us to reconstruct parameters of longitudinal development of extensive air showers.
ISSN:1063-7788
1562-692X
DOI:10.1134/S1063778819660189