Study of extensive air showers and primary energy spectra by MAKET-ANI detector on mountain Aragats

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作者
Chilingarian, A. [1 ]
Gharagyozyan, G. [1 ]
Ghazaryan, S. [1 ]
Hovsepyan, G. [1 ]
Mamidjanyan, E. [1 ]
Melkumyan, L. [1 ]
Romakhin, V. [1 ]
Vardanyan, A. [1 ]
Sokhoyan, S. [1 ]
机构
[1] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
关键词
EAS installation; lateral distribution function (LDF); EAS size spectra; cosmic ray energy spectra; light" and "heavy" components;
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10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.04.005
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Small and middle size surface detectors measuring extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by primary cosmic rays (PCR) incident on terrestrial atmosphere have been in operation for the last 50 years. Their main goal is to explore the "knee" in all particle spectrum to solve the problem of cosmic ray (CR) origin and acceleration. The recent achievements of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes and X-ray space laboratories, establishing the supernova remnants (SNRs) as a source of hadronic cosmic rays, pose stringent conditions on the quality of EAS evidence. After establishing the existence of the "knee" itself, the most pronounced result from EAS studies is the rigidity dependent shift of the knee position to the highest energies. This feature was first observed by separation of the primary flux in different mass groups in MAKET-ANI, EAS-TOP and KASCADE experiments. The MAKET-ANI detector is placed on Mt. Aragats (Armenia) at 3200 in above the sea level (40 degrees 25'N, 449 degrees 15'E). More than 1.3 x 10(6) showers with size greater than 10(5) particles were registered in 1997-2004. The detector effectively collected the cores of EAS, initiated by primaries with energies of 10(14)-10(17) eV. After proving that the quality of the EAS size and shape reconstruction was reasonably high, we present the lateral distribution function (LDF) for distances from 10 to 120 in from EAS core and EAS size spectra in 5 zenith angle intervals. We use CORSIKA simulations to present the energy spectra. The results from the MAKET-ANI experiment on the energy spectra of the "light"(p + He) and "heavy" (0 + Si + Fe) nuclear groups are compared to the spectra obtained by balloon experiments and to other available spectra. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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