FEATURES OF THE LATERAL PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE CORE OF HIGH-ENERGY EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS FROM A MULTIFRACTAL MOMENTS ANALYSIS

Authors
HAUNGS A KEMPA J MATHES HJ REBEL H WENTZ J
Citation
A. Haungs et al., FEATURES OF THE LATERAL PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE CORE OF HIGH-ENERGY EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS FROM A MULTIFRACTAL MOMENTS ANALYSIS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 372(3), 1996, pp. 515-526
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
372
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
515 - 526
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1996)372:3<515:FOTLPD>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The central detector of the KASCADE (KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array D etector) experiment is able to observe the density distributions of th e main extensive air shower (EAS) components in the shower core. In pa rticular, the muon component is measured precisely by large-area posit ion-sensitive multiwire proportional chambers (MWPC), installed below the hadron calorimeter (approximate to 1000 g/cm(2) Fe). Using the met hod of multifractal moments analysis, applied to simulated data as ''o bserved'' by the MWPC, differences of the EAS lateral distributions fo r different type of primaries are revealed. First results from data me asured with the MWPC are reported.