Applications of muon signal to electromagnetic signal showers universality for mass composition and hadronic interactions studies

Details Applications of muon signal to electromagnetic signal showers universality for mass composition and hadronic interactions studies Applications of muon signal to electromagnetic signal showers universality for mass composition and hadronic interactions studies

2011-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/1107.5235v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Contribution to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing, China, August, 11-18, 2011

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We present the first results of the application of the recently found universality of behavior of muon signal to electromagnetic (EM) signal ratio with respect to the vertical depth of showers maximum for mass composition and hadronic interaction studies. Making use of the fact that for zenith angles above 45 degrees the dependence of the ratio on the vertical depth of shower maximum is very similar for QGSJET II and EPOS 1.99 we show that this provides the possibility to estimate muon shower content in almost interaction model independent way. To evaluate the excess of signal in the data in respect to Monte-Carlo predictions we propose to use mass independence of the electromagnetic signal. Using the simulations with EPOS 1.99 as a fake data we show that one can determine the absolute scaling factor between these fake data and the interaction model under test (QGSJET II in our case). Applying this scaling factor to the total and muon signals of QGSJET II one can make accurate conclusions on the primary mass of samples prepared with EPOS 1.99.

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