Alignment in Gamma-Hadron Families of Cosmic Rays

Details Alignment in Gamma-Hadron Families of Cosmic Rays Alignment in Gamma-Hadron Families of Cosmic Rays

1994-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9408247v1

Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 2766-2774

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures (not included), Stanford University preprint SU-ITP-94-25

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.52.2766

Alignment of main fluxes of energy in a target plane is found in families of cosmic ray particles detected in deep lead X-ray chambers. The fraction of events with alignment is unexpectedly large for families with high energy and large number of hadrons. This can be considered as evidence for the existence of coplanar scattering of secondary particles in interaction of particles with superhigh energy, $E_0 > 10^{16}$ eV. Data analysis suggests that production of most aligned groups occurs low above the chamber and is characterized by a coplanar scattering and quasiscaling spectrum of secondaries in the fragmentation region. The most elaborated hypothesis for explanation of alignment is related to the quark-gluon string rupture. However, the problem of theoretical interpretation of our results still remains open.

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