An approach to measure the spectra of primary protons, helium- and iron nuclei at the “knee” energies at a high altitude

✍ Scribed by X.W. Xu; T. Yudac; L.K. Ding; C.S. Zhang; M. Ohnishi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 516 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80384-5

✦ Synopsis

We propose to build a simple detector array at a high altitude that records high energy electromagnetic components in air shower cores of the 'knee' energies. The Monte Carlo study shows that spectra of primary protons, helium-and iron nuclei at the 'knee' energy region can be obtained with a three years' exposure using this air shower core detector.