Muon production heights determined in the KASCADE experiment
Creators
- Buettner, C.
- Antoni, T.
- Apel, W.D.
- Badea, F.
- Bekk, K.
- Bercuci, A.
- Bluemer, H.
- Bozdog, H.
- Brancus, I.M.
- Chilingarian, A.
- Daumiller, K.
- Doll, P.
- Engler, J.
- Fessler, F.
- Gils, H.J.
- Glasstetter, R.
- Haeusler, R.
- Haungs, A.
- Heck, D.
- Hoerandel, J.R.
- Iwana, A.
- Kampert, K.-H.
- Klages, H.O.
- Maier, G.
- Mathes, H.J.
- Mayer, H.J.
- Milke, J.
- Mueller, M.
- Obenland, R.
- Oehlschlaeger, J.
- Ostapchenko, S.
- Petcu, M.
- Rebel, H.
- Risse, M.
- Roth, M.
- Schatz, G.
- Schieler, H.
- Scholz, J.
- Thouw, T.
- Ulrich, H.
- Weber, J.H.
- Weindl, A.
- Wentz, J.
- Wochele, J.
- Zabierowski, J.
Description
Muon production heights in EAS provide a specific tool to investigate the longitudinal development of EAS, since muons are little affected by subsequent interactions in the atmosphere. Multiplicity of muons presents also a unique tool to investigate hadronic interaction models. The capability of the Muon Tracking Detector to measure radial and tangential angles of muon tracks in EAS, in combination with the shower direction determined by the Array of the KASCADE experiment, has been investigated. Due to different characteristics in shower development of light and heavy primary cosmic ray particles the radial angle and therefore the related production height is sensitive to the mass of them. Muon production height (MPH) and muon production depth (MPD) were studied in different bins of the muon shower size for measured data and MC simulations, which have been performed using the Monte Carlo program CORSIKA with the hadronic interaction models QGSJet and NEXUS. First composition studies on the basis of MPD distributions have been carried out
Additional details
Identifiers
- PII
- S0920563203804012;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
- Journal Volume
- 122
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 289-292
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
- CODEN
- NPBSE7
Conference
- Title
- 12. international symposium on very high energy cosmic ray interactions
- Dates
- 15-20 Jul 2002
- Place
- Geneva (Switzerland)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Mexico
- INIS RN
- 35031473
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- C CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; FLUCTUATIONS; GEV RANGE; JET MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLICITY; MUONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; COMPUTER CODES; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC SHOWERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SHOWERS; SIMULATION; VARIATIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.