A Monte Carlo simulation of air shower cores

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The electromagnetic and strongly interacting particle distributions falling on the Sydney 64 scintillator array for a variety of primary particles (from protons to iron) of a given incident total energy have been simulated using Monte Carlo and analytic methods. For a given primary particle, various fundamental nucleon–nucleon and pion–nucleon interactions have been tried. The results show that a number of characteristics–e.g. the average type of core structure (multiple or single), the mean maximum central electron density, and the mean maximum energy of a strongly interacting particle–are all strongly dependent on the nature of the primary. They are only weakly dependent on, or are independent of the nature of the fundamental interaction within the range covered.The results are compared with experimental results from the Sydney 64 scintillator array.

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