THE TRAJECTORIES OF COSMIC-RAYS AT THE HIGHEST ENERGIES .3. APPLICATIONS OF PREDICTIONS TO THE RESULTS FROM EXTENSIVE AIRE SHOWER ARRAYS

Citation
X. Chi et al., THE TRAJECTORIES OF COSMIC-RAYS AT THE HIGHEST ENERGIES .3. APPLICATIONS OF PREDICTIONS TO THE RESULTS FROM EXTENSIVE AIRE SHOWER ARRAYS, Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, 20(4), 1994, pp. 673-679
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields","Physics, Nuclear
ISSN journal
09543899
Volume
20
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
673 - 679
Database
ISI
SICI code
0954-3899(1994)20:4<673:TTOCAT>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The predicted anisotropies from the calculations reported in the prece ding paper, by Dudarewicz et al, are compared with our estimates of th e experimental values from a number of EAS arrays: Sydney, Yakutsk, Ha verah Park and Chacaltaya. The mass composition of galactic particles is inferred from the analysis and comparison is made with the results from other workers, using different techniques, most notably the Fly's Eye results of Bird et al (1993). The results indicate general agreem ent that the flux of galactic protons falls rapidly with increasing en ergy and that there is a considerable fraction of heavy nuclei above 1 0(18) eV with a transition to isotropic protons (presumed to be extrag alactic) above 10(19) eV.