Anomalous Longitudinal Shower Profiles and Hadronic Interactions

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2011-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/1111.0504v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

included in ICRC 2011 Conference Proceedings (icrc2011.ihep.ac.cn)

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The bulk of air showers initiated by very high energy cosmic rays exhibits a longitudinal development in depth with a single well-defined shower maximum. However, a small fraction of showers has a profile that differs considerably from this average behaviour. In extreme cases, such anomalous longitudinal profiles can even have two distinct shower maxima. We discuss the properties of the primary interactions that lead to such profiles. Simulations are used to estimate the rate of anomalous profiles in dependence of primary energy, mass, and characteristic features of hadronic multiparticle production at very high energies.

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