An Analysis of Experimental Data on Extensive Air Showers

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The main interest of the present paper is in analysing the fluctuations in the starting points of extensive air showers in the atmosphere. A method of obtaining the shower curve without taking into account the effect of the fluctuations is presented. The latte effect results in that small energy showers which thrust themselves into the lower atmosphere are observed as if they were large energy showers, and the effect is not insignificant especially in the case of observing showers of large sizes at low altitudes. This may also modify the primary energy spectrum in such a way that the intensity at very high energies is significantly smaller than the one currently adopted. Qualitative interpretations of some unusal events and some speculations on high energy nuclear interactions are also given.

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