Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-29
JETPLett.87:190-194,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 3 figures; v2: replaced with journal version
Scientific paper
10.1134/S0021364008040024
We analyse a sample of 33 extensive air showers (EAS) with estimated primary energies above 2\cdot 10^{19} eV and high-quality muon data recorded by the Yakutsk EAS array. We compare, event-by-event, the observed muon density to that expected from CORSIKA simulations for primary protons and iron, using SIBYLL and EPOS hadronic interaction models. The study suggests the presence of two distinct hadronic components, ``light'' and ``heavy''. Simulations with EPOS are in a good agreement with the expected composition in which the light component corresponds to protons and the heavy component to iron-like nuclei. With SYBILL, simulated muon densities for iron primaries are a factor of \sim 1.5 less than those observed for the heavy component, for the same electromagnetic signal. Assuming two-component proton-iron composition and the EPOS model, the fraction of protons with energies E>10^{19} eV is 0.52^{+0.19}_{-0.20} at 95% confidence level.
Glushkov Alexandr V.
Gorbunov Dmitry S.
Makarov I. T.
Pravdin M. I.
Rubtsov G. I.
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