Arrival directions of extensive air showers of primary energy ~1017 eV

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S78-S80 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Blake ◽  
J. D. Hollows ◽  
H. W. Hunter ◽  
R. J. O. Reid ◽  
R. M. Tennent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Particle ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Running Time ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
Primary Particles ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Right Ascension ◽  
Arrival Directions

A detailed study of the arrival directions of primary particles of mean energy 2 × 1017 eV recorded by the Haverah Park Stage 1 (500-m) EAS array is reported. After rejecting time intervals randomly to equalize the sidereal running time of the array, upwards of 30 000 showers were available for analysis. In two energy intervals with mean energies about 1017 eV and 5 × 1017 eV significantly lower upper limits have been set on primary particle anistropy, and for all showers the amplitude of the first harmonic in right ascension is 0.6 ± 1.1% with a maximum at about 210°.An azimuthal asymmetry in detected showers (mainly arising from a 2° tilt of the array plane) limits the precision with which variations in declinations could be detected, and no analysis in galactic coordinates has been attempted. However, a plot in squares 10° RA by 10° declination reveals no deviations from isotropy within declination bands, and the overall distribution of intensity fluctuations is consistent with statistical expectation.Some general remarks are made on isotropy measurements.

Investigating the Characteristics of Longitudinal Profile of Primary Particles in Extensive Air Showers

2015 ◽  
Vol 754-755 ◽  
pp. 859-864
Author(s):  
A.A. Al-Rubaiee ◽  
Uda Hashim ◽  
Mohd Khairuddin Md Arshad ◽  
A. Rahim Ruslinda ◽  
R.M. Ayub ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Charged Particles ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Extensive Air Showers ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Longitudinal Development ◽  
Extensive Air Shower ◽  
Primary Particles ◽  
Shower Maximum ◽  
Hadronic Model

One of the characteristics of longitudinal development of extensive air showers is the number of charged particles and depth of shower maximum in extensive air showers as a function of primary energy, which is often used to reconstruct the elemental composition of primary cosmic rays. Studying of extensive air shower characteristics was performed by investigating the longitudinal development parameters depending on Heitler model for different primary particles. The simulation of the number of charged particles and depth of shower maximum (NandXmax) in extensive air showers of particle cascades was performed using AIRES code for SIBYLL hadronic model for different primary particles like electron, positron, gamma quanta and iron nuclei at the energy range 1014-1019eV. The comparison between the simulated longitudinal development ofNandXmaxusing SIBYLL hadronic model with two hadronic models (QGSJET99 ans SIBYLL16) has shown an opportunity for determination of cosmic ray cascade interactions in extensive air showers.

scholarly journals Demonstrating of Cosmic Ray Characteristics by Estimating the Cherenkov Light Lateral Distribution Function for Yakutsk Array as a Function of the Zenith Angle

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Marwah M. Abdulsttar ◽  
A.A. Al-Rubaiee ◽  
Abdul Halim K. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Distribution Function ◽  
Zenith Angle ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Lateral Distribution ◽  
Cherenkov Light ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Lateral Distribution Function ◽  
Primary Particles

Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (CLLDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) for different primary particles (e-, n , p, F, K and Fe) was simulated using CORSIKA code for conditions and configurations of Yakutsk EAS array with the fixed primary energy 3 PeV around the knee region at different zenith angles. Basing on the results of CLLDF numerical simulation, sets of approximated functions are reconstructed for different primary particles as a function of the zenith angle. A comparison of the parametrized CLLDF with that simulated with Yakutsk EAS array is verified.The parameterized CLLDF also is compared with that measured on the Yakutsk EAS array.

Computer simulations of cosmic-ray air showers II. Showers initiated by heavy primary particles

1974 ◽  
Vol 339 (1617) ◽  
pp. 157-170 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Primary Particle ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Heavy Particles ◽  
Longitudinal Development ◽  
Energy Interaction ◽  
Precise Knowledge ◽  
Primary Particles

Computer simulations have been made of large extensive air showers initiated by nuclei heavier than protons. The work forms part of a study of future experiments designed to identify the nature of the energetic primary particles. A model based upon data from nuclear emulsion experiments has been used to represent the break-up of the primary nuclei in collision with air nuclei. Differences in shower characteristics are predicted which are dependent upon the choice of model for the fragmentation of the primary nucleus and its energy. The major cause of fluctuations in the longitudinal development of showers produced by heavy particles is shown to be the pattern of the fragmentation of the incident nucleus. In the absence of a precise knowledge of the high-energy interaction, we have not identified any parameter in large showers which, if measurable and averaged over many showers, will reflect strongly the nature of the primary particle.

scholarly journals Study of Cherenkov light lateral distribution function around the knee region in extensive air showers

2015 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
A. Al-Rubaiee ◽  
U. Hashim ◽  
M. Marwah ◽  
Y. Al-Douri
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Cherenkov Radiation ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Lateral Distribution ◽  
Cherenkov Light ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Knee Region ◽  
Lateral Distribution Function ◽  
Primary Particles

The Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) was simulated with the CORSIKAcode in the energy range (1013 - 1016) eV. This simulation was performed for conditions and configurations of the Tunka EAS Cherenkov array for the two primary particles (p and Fe). Basing on the simulated results, many approximated functions are structured for two primary particles and different zenith angles. This allowed us to reconstruct the EAS events, which is, to determine the type and energy of the primary particles that produced showers from signal amplitudes of Cherenkov radiation measured by the Tunka Cherenkov array experiment. Comparison of the calculated LDF of Cherenkov radiation with that measured at the Tunka EAS array shows the ability to identify the primary particle that initiated the EAS cascades by determining its primary energy around the knee region of the cosmic ray spectrum.

scholarly journals Recent results from the KASCADE-Grande data analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
D. Kang ◽  
W.D. Apel ◽  
J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez ◽  
K. Bekk ◽  
M. Bertaina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Hadronic Interactions ◽  
Set Constraints ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
Energy Gamma

KASCADE, together with its extension KASCADE-Grande measured individual air showers of cosmic rays in the primary energy range of 100 TeV to 1 EeV. The data collection was fully completed at the end of 2013 and the experiment was dismantled. However, the data analysis is still in progress. Recently, we published a new result on upper limits to the flux of ultra-high energy gamma rays, which set constraints on some fundamental astrophysical models. We also use the data to investigate the validity of the new hadronic interactions models like SIBYLL version 2.3c or EPOS-LHC. In addition, we updated and improved the webbased platform of the KASCADE Cosmic Ray Data Centre (KCDC), where now the data from KASCADE and KASCADE-Grande of more than 20 years measurements is available, including corresponding Monte-Carlo simulated events based on three different hadronic interaction models. In this contribution, recent results from KASCADE-Grande and the update of KCDC is briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Extension of Cherenkov Light LDF Approximation for Yakutsk EAS Array

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Al-Rubaiee ◽  
Y. Al-Douri ◽  
U. Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Cherenkov Light ◽  
Primary Proton ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
High Energies ◽  
Primary Particles

The simulation of the Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (LDF) in extensive air showers (EAS) was performed using CORSIKA code for configuration of Yakutsk EAS array at high energy range for different primary particles (p, Fe, and O2) and different zenith angles. Depending on Breit-Wigner function a parameterization of Cherenkov light LDF was reconstructed on the basis of this simulation as a function of primary energy. A comparison of the calculated Cherenkov light LDF with that measured on the Yakutsk EAS array gives the possibility of identification of the particle initiating the shower and determination of its energy in the knee region of the cosmic ray spectrum. The extrapolation of approximated Cherenkov light LDF for high energies was obtained for primary proton and iron nuclei.

Low-energy muons in extensive air showers at 800 g cm−2

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S131-S135 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Chatterjee ◽  
N. V. Gopalakrishnan ◽  
G. T. Murthy ◽  
S. Naranan ◽  
B. V. Sreekantan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Size Range ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Extensive Air Showers ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Average Total Number ◽  
The Right ◽  
Electron Photon ◽  
Photon Component ◽  
Lateral Structure ◽  
Right Ascension

The following results on the low-energy (> 0.6 GeV and > 1.0 GeV) muons in air showers of size 105 to 2 × 107 at Ootacamund (800 g cm−2) are obtained: (1) The average total number of muons [Formula: see text] varies as Ne0.32 ± 0.2 for 105 < Ne < 106, and as Ne0.8 ± 0.15for 106 < Ne < 2 × 107. (2) In showers showing flat electron lateral structure, the [Formula: see text] variation with Ne is similar to (1). However, in steep showers, [Formula: see text] varies as Ne0.75 ± 0.15 in the whole size range 105 to 2 × 107. (3) "Muon-rich" showers of size < 106 have less energy in the electron–photon component compared to "normal" showers. No such difference is found for showers of size > 106. (4) There is a slight indication of a deficiency of muon-rich showers having a flat lateral distribution of electrons in the right ascension interval 15–21 hours for showers of size 106–107. A similar deficit of showers was observed by the Tokyo group for muon-rich showers in the same RA interval.

Distribution of arrival times in cosmic ray showers

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-735
Author(s):  
H. S. Green
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Radiation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stochastic Theory ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Actual Distribution ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Primary Particles ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

The theoretical analyses of the extensive air showers developing from the cosmic radiation has its origins in the work of Carlson and Oppenheimer (1937) and Bhabha and Heitler (1937), at a time when it was thought that such showers were initiated by electrons. The realization that protons and other nuclei were the primary particles led to a reformulation of the theory by Heitler and Janossy (1949), Messel and Green (1952) and others, in which the production of energetic pions and the three-dimensional development of air showers were accounted for. But as the soft (electromagnetic) component of the cosmic radiation is the most prominent feature of air showers at sea level, there has been a sustained interest in the theory of this component. Most of the more recent work, such as that by Butcher and Messel (1960) and Thielheim and Zöllner (1972) has relied on computer simulation; but this method has disadvantages in terms of accuracy and presentation of results, especially where a simultaneous analysis of the development of air showers in terms of several physical variables is required. This is so for instance when the time of arrival is one of the variables. Moyal (1956) played an important part in the analytical formulation of a stochastic theory of cosmic ray showers, with time as an explicit variable, and it is essentially this approach which will be adopted in the following. The actual distribution of arrival times is cosmic ray showers, for which results are obtained, is of current experimental interest (McDonald, Clay and Prescott (1977)).

scholarly journals Estimating primary energy of cosmic rays by calculating secondary particles density in optimum distance from shower core

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750190
Author(s):  
G. Rastegarzadeh ◽  
L. Rafezi
Keyword(s):  
Primary Particle ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Energy Estimation ◽  
Array Configuration ◽  
Secondary Particles ◽  
Shower Core ◽  
Optimum Distance ◽  
Array Detectors ◽  
Estimation Function ◽  
Minimum Uncertainty

Optimum distance (R[Formula: see text]) is a distance from the shower core in which the density calculated by lateral distribution function, has its minimum uncertainty. In this paper, using CORSIKA code, proton, carbon and iron primary in the energy range between 10[Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]eV are simulated to find R[Formula: see text] for Alborz-I array located at an altitude of 1200[Formula: see text]m above sea level. It is shown that R[Formula: see text] is approximately independent of characteristics of primary particle and it is only dependent to array configuration. Dependency of R[Formula: see text] on layout and detector spacing for 20 Alborz-I array detectors, are studied. It is shown that the Alborz-I array layout and its detector spacing result into the best (minimum uncertainty) R[Formula: see text] for its number of detectors. In this work, R[Formula: see text] for Alborz-I array is obtained about [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m (from NKG function) and [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m (from NKG type function). In addition, it is shown that, by finding dependency of primary energy to density in optimum distance, energy of primary particle can be estimated well. An energy estimation function is suggested and the function is examined by another set of simulated showers.

scholarly journals Determination of the invisible energy of extensive air showers from the data collected at Pierre Auger Observatory

2019 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 02010
Author(s):  
Analisa G. Mariazzi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Extensive Air Showers ◽  
Pierre Auger Observatory ◽  
Mass Composition ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Muon Production ◽  
The Invisible

In order to get the primary energy of cosmic rays from their extensive air showers using the fluorescence detection technique, the invisible energy should be added to the measured calorimetric energy. The invisible energy is the energy carried away by particles that do not deposit all their energy in the atmosphere. It has traditionally been calculated using Monte Carlo simulations that are dependent on the assumed primary particle mass and on model predictions for neutrino and muon production. In this work the invisible energy is obtained directly from events detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The method applied is based on the correlation of the measurements of the muon number at the ground with the invisible energy of the showers. By using it, the systematic uncertainties related to the unknown mass composition and to the high energy hadronic interaction models are significantly reduced, improving in this way the estimation of the energy scale of the Observatory.

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