Cosmic ray shower simulations and the primary energy spectrum above 1017eV
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics
- Vol. 1 (1) , 134-149
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4616/1/1/015
Abstract
The consequences of applying the model for air shower development suggested by Gaisser (1974) to primaries of energy 1017-1018 eV are investigated. It is shown that there is as good agreement between the predictions from this model with observations of average shower characteristics as there was between the observations and earlier simulation data based upon simple models for high-energy interactions. The effects of adopting the Gaisser model on the conversion of observational data to the primary particle energy spectrum are considered.Keywords
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