تقرير
A new observable in extensive air showers
| العنوان: | A new observable in extensive air showers |
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| المؤلفون: | Canal, C. A. García, Illana, J. I., Masip, M., Sciutto, S. J. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| الوصف: | We find that the ratio r_{mu e} of the muon to the electromagnetic component of an extended air shower at the ground level provides an indirect measure of the depth X_{max} of the shower maximum. This result, obtained with the air-shower code AIRES, is independent of the hadronic model used in the simulation. We show that the value of r_{mu e} in a particular shower discriminates its proton or iron nature with a 98% efficiency. We also show that the eventual production of forward heavy quarks inside the shower may introduce anomalous values of r_{mu e} in isolated events. Comment: 10 pages, version to appear in Astroparticle Physics |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04941 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1609.04941 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| الوصف غير متاح. |