Parameters sensitive to the mass composition of cosmic rays and their application at the Pierre Auger Observatory

0388748 - FZÚ 2013 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Vícha, Jakub
Parameters sensitive to the mass composition of cosmic rays and their application at the Pierre Auger Observatory.
WDS´12 - Proceedings of Contributed Papers, Part III. Praha: Matfyzpress, 2012 - (Šafránková, J.; Pavlů, J.), s. 137-141. ISBN 978-80-7378-226-9.
[Annual Conference of Doctoral Students - WDS 2012 /21./. Praha (CZ), 29.05.2012-01.06.2012]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LA08016
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100502
Keywords : ultra-high energy cosmic rays * Pierre Auger Observatory * mass composition
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics

The Pierre Auger Observatory studies extensive cosmic ray showers of energy above 1018 eV. The mass composition of the shower–inducing primary particles plays an important role in the search for an anisotropy of their arrival directions and in considerations about the possible mechanisms of their acceleration. Several air shower parameters carrying information about the mass of primary cosmic ray are introduced and their applications to data of the Pierre Auger Observatory are discussed.
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