Published April 5, 1991
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Journal article
Grand particle identification
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (USA)
- 2. High Energy Lab, Institute of Nucle Physics, Ul. Kawiory 26A, Krakow, Poland (Poland)
Description
The method of using a thin absorber and tracking chambers to identify particles in air showers has been studied using a test setup in the GRAND air shower array. Dramatic differences between muons and electrons are seen in the fraction of particles which stop in the absorber and in the distribution of scattering angles for particles which penetrate the absorber. A simple algorithm is applied to 93% of two samples of data which were preidentified as muons and as electrons respectively. Of these 96.2±0.2% of the muons and 95.1±0.6% of the electrons are correctly identified
Additional details
Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- Cyg X-3
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 220
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- AIP Conf. Proc.
- Journal Page Range
- 242-245
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPC
Conference
- Title
- International conference on high energy gamma ray astronomy.
- Dates
- 2-5 Oct 1990.
- Place
- Ann Arbor, MI (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22074755
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; COSMIC ELECTRONS; COSMIC MUONS; ELECTRON DETECTION; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; MUON DETECTION
- Descriptors DEC
- CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC SHOWERS; DETECTION; ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MUONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SHOWERS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-9010289--.