Original title: Parameters sensitive to the mass composition of cosmic rays and their application at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Authors: Vícha, Jakub
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Annual Conference of Doctoral Students - WDS 2012 /21./, Praha (CZ), 2012-05-29 / 2012-06-01
Year: 2012
Language: eng
Abstract: The Pierre Auger Observatory studies extensive cosmic ray showers of energy above 1018 eV. The mass composition of the shower–inducing primary particles plays an important role in the search for an anisotropy of their arrival directions and in considerations about the possible mechanisms of their acceleration. Several air shower parameters carrying information about the mass of primary cosmic ray are introduced and their applications to data of the Pierre Auger Observatory are discussed.
Keywords: mass composition; Pierre Auger Observatory; ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z10100502 (CEP), LA08016 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA MŠk
Host item entry: WDS´12 - Proceedings of Contributed Papers, Part III, ISBN 978-80-7378-226-9

Institution: Institute of Physics AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0217676

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