COMPARISON OF THE ELECTRON AND MUON DATA IN EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS WITH THE EXPECTATIONS FROM A COSMIC-RAY COMPOSITION AND HADRON INTERACTION-MODEL

Authors
AGLIETTA M ALESSANDRO B ANTONIOLI P ARNEODO F BERGAMASCO L BERTAINA M FAUTH AC CASTAGNOLI C CASTELLINA A CHIAVASSA A CASTAGNOLI GC PIAZZOLI BD DISCIASCIO G FULGIONE W GALEOTTI P GHIA PL GODOI AL GRANELLA R IACOVACCI M MANNOCCHI G MELAGRANA C SILVA NM MORELLO C NAVARRA G NOGIMA H RICCATI L SAAVEDRA O TRINCHERO GC VALLANIA P VERNETTO S VIGORITO C
Citation
M. Aglietta et al., COMPARISON OF THE ELECTRON AND MUON DATA IN EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS WITH THE EXPECTATIONS FROM A COSMIC-RAY COMPOSITION AND HADRON INTERACTION-MODEL, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 112(2-3), 1997, pp. 139-147
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
11241888
Volume
112
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
139 - 147
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1888(1997)112:2-3<139:COTEAM>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The cosmic-ray primary spectrum and composition ape studied at E-0 > 1 0(14) eV by means of the multicomponent Extensive Air Shower detector of the EAS-TOP experiment at the National Gran Sasso Laboratories. The measured muon lateral distribution function (E-mu > 1 GeV) and the N- e-N-mu relation in the energy range around the knee of the primary ene rgy spectrum (E-0 approximate to 3.10(15)eV) are compared with the exp ectations of a simulation based on the Dual Parton Model (CORSIKA code ) and a cosmic-ray composition model based on the extrapolations of th e low-energy direct measurements. First data obtained for vertical sho wers show that both average values and fluctuations are well reproduce d. The same interaction model together with mixed compositions, not re quiring dramatic changes, fit the data also above the knee (up to E-0 approximate to 10(15) eV.