The new energy estimates of giant air showers

✍ Scribed by L.G. Dedenko; G.F. Fedorova; E.Yu. Fedunin; A.V. Glushkov; V.A. Kolosov; M.I. Pravdin; T.M. Roganova; I.E. Sleptsov

• Book ID: 104354951
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 344 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80411-5

✦ Synopsis

A new model of interpretation of data has been suggested. All responses of scintillation detector stations should be interpreted in terms of this model to estimate the energy of giant air shower correctly. It has been calculated

that the main contribution to responses of scintillation detector stations at large distances that are important for observations of giant air showers was caused by photons. The ratio of signal in units of vertical equivalent muon to the charged particle density happens to be equal to 2.5 in electron-photon showers at distances above 500 m from the shower core. Calculations in terms of the quark-gluon model string for showers observed by the Yakutsk array showed 4 events with energies above 10" eV.