scholarly journals Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra and Mass Composition at the Knee – Recent Results from KASCADE –

2004 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.-H. Kampert ◽  
T. Antoni ◽  
W.D. Apel ◽  
F. Badea ◽  
K. Bekk ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) ◽  
pp. 6834-6836 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. LAGUTIN ◽  
A. G. TYUMENTSEV ◽  
A. V. YUSHKOV

We consider the problem of the cosmic ray spectrum formation assuming that cosmic rays are produced by galactic sources. The fractional diffusion equation proposed in our recent papers is used to describe the cosmic rays propagation in interstellar medium. We show that in the framework of this approach it is possible to explain the locally observed basic features of the cosmic rays in the energy region 1010 ÷ 1020 eV : difference between spectral exponents of protons and other nuclei, mass composition variation, "knee" problem, flattening of the primary spectrum for E ≥ 1018 ÷ 1019 eV .


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (supp01c) ◽  
pp. 1019-1021
Author(s):  
JOHN BELZ

The High-Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory has been operating in monocular (stereo) mode for about three years (one year), during which time we have observed extensive airshowers with an integrated aperture of ~ 1500 km2-sr-yr (~ 400 km-sr-yr) at 5×1019 eV. We describe the HiRes experiment and the nitrogen fluorescence technique, and present data taken in both monocular and stereo modes including preliminary energy spectra.


1963 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
L.V. Kurnosova ◽  
V.I. Logachev ◽  
L.A. Razorenov ◽  
M.I. Fradkin

2011 ◽  
Vol 742 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Obermeier ◽  
M. Ave ◽  
P. Boyle ◽  
Ch. Höppner ◽  
J. Hörandel ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 02012
Author(s):  
R. Takeishi

One of the uncertainties in ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observation derives from the hadronic interaction model used for air shower Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations. One may test the hadronic interaction models by comparing the measured number of muons observed at the ground from UHECR induced air showers with the MC prediction. The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest experiment in the northern hemisphere observing UHECR in Utah, USA. It aims to reveal the origin of UHECRs by studying the energy spectrum, mass composition and anisotropy of cosmic rays by utilizing an array of surface detectors (SDs) and fluorescence detectors. We studied muon densities in the UHE extensive air showers by analyzing the signal of TA SD stations for highly inclined showers. On condition that the muons contribute about 65% of the total signal, the number of particles from air showers is typically 1.88 ± 0.08 (stat.) ± 0.42 (syst.) times larger than the MC prediction with the QGSJET II-03 model for proton-induced showers. The same feature was also obtained for other hadronic interaction models, such as QGSJET II-04.


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