Study of hadronic component in air showers at Mt. Chacaltaya

Authors
Aguirre, C Aoki, H Hashimoto, K Honda, K Inoue, N Kawasumi, N Maeda, Y Martinic, N Matano, T Ohmori, N Ohsawa, A Shinozaki, K Tamada, M Ticona, R Tsushima, I Yokoi, K
Citation
C. Aguirre et al., Study of hadronic component in air showers at Mt. Chacaltaya, NUCL PH B-P, 75A, 1999, pp. 186-190
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS
ISSN journal
09205632 → ACNP
Volume
75A
Year of publication
1999
Pages
186 - 190
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(199904)75A:<186:SOHCIA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
An experiment to operate an air shower array, a burst detector (or a hadron calorimeter) and an emulsion chamber is under way at Mt. Chacaltaya (5,200 m, Bolivia), in order to study the hadron interactions and the primary cos mic rays in the energy region exceeding 10(15) eV. The number of hadrons in the air shower, detected by the burst detector, indicates that the proton fraction among the primary cosmic rays exceeds 50 %.