Published December 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Phenomenon of energy concentration in high-energy family events of cosmic rays

  • 1. Shandong Univ., Ji'nan (China). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). Inst. of High Energy Physics

Description

The phenomenon of energy concentration in high-energy family events of cosmic rays is studied by comparing the results of family events of total visible energies 100-400 TeV observed in the Kanbala emulsion chamber experiment with the Monte Carlo simulation data. The simulation is made by the program CORSIKA in which QGSJET is applied as the hadronic interaction model, and the chemical composition of primary cosmic rays is obtained from the rigidity-cut model and the extrapolation of new results of direct measurements. This shows that the whole distribution tendency of the rate of energy concentration of simulated family events is basically consistent with that of the experiment

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Journal Title
Chinese Physics Letters
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 1890-1892
ISSN
0256-307X