Measurement of air shower cores to study the cosmic ray composition in the knee energy region

Details Measurement of air shower cores to study the cosmic ray composition in the knee energy region Measurement of air shower cores to study the cosmic ray composition in the knee energy region

2000-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008043v2

Phys.Rev.D62:072007,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 21 figures, to appear in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.072007

Since 1996, a hybrid experiment consisting of an emulsion chamber and a burst detector array and the Tibet-II air shower array has been operated at Yangbajing (4300 m above sea level) in Tibet. This experiment can detect air-shower cores, called burst events, accompanied by air showers in excess of about 100 TeV. Using the burst event data observed by this experiment, we discuss the primary cosmic ray composition around the knee in comparison with the Monte Carlo simulations. In this paper, we show that all the features of burst events are wholly compatible with the heavy enriched composition in the knee energy region.

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