Mass composition of cosmic Rays with combined surface detector arrays

0551679 - FZÚ 2022 RIV IT eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Vícha, Jakub - Nosek, D. - Trávníček, Petr - Ebr, Jan
Mass composition of cosmic Rays with combined surface detector arrays.
Proceedings of Science. 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference ICRC2017. The Astroparticle Physics Conference. Trieste: Proceedings of Science, 2017, č. článku 482. ISSN 1824-8039.
[The 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017). Busan (KR), 10.07.2017-20.07.2017]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LG15014; GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001402; GA ČR(CZ) GA14-17501S
Grant - others:OP VVV - AUGER-CZ(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001402
Research Infrastructure: AUGER-CZ - 90038
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : Cosmic rays * mass composition * surface detectors
OECD category: Particles and field physics
https://pos.sissa.it/301/482/pdf

Our study exploits the Constant Intensity Cut principles applied simultaneously to muonic and electromagnetic detectors of cosmic rays. We use the fact that the ordering of events according to their signal sizes induced in different types of surface detectors provides information about the mass composition of primary cosmic-ray beam, with low sensitivity to details of hadronic interactions. Composition analysis at knee energies is performed using Monte Carlo simulations for extensive air showers having maxima located far away from a hypothetical observatory. Another type of a hypothetical observatory is adopted to examine composition of ultra-high energy primaries which initiate vertical air showers with maxima observed near surface detectors.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0326915