Journal
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 133, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102642
Keywords
Cosmic rays; Cosmic rays energy spectrum; Cosmic rays composition; Extensive air shower; EAS; EAS muon component
Funding
- Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan [AP09258896]
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The results suggest that the muon content in extensive air showers in the range of primary cosmic ray energies is more complex than previously thought. Experimental data show that muon counts in EAS with family structures are significantly higher than the average, contrary to model predictions.
We put together the experimental results on muon component of extensive air showers (EAS) which were gained with various techniques at the detector complex of the Tien Shan mountain station. According to this comparison, the problem of the EAS muon content in the range of primary cosmic ray energies (1-100) PeV seems to be more complicated than it was usually supposed. Generally, from the models of nuclear interaction it follows that the EAS which have produced gamma-hadron families in the Tien Shan X-ray emulsion chamber did preferably originate from interaction of the light cosmic ray nuclei, such that their muon abundance must be similar to 1.5 times below an average calculated over all showers. In contrary, the experimental muon counts in the EAS with families demonstrate a (1.5-2)-fold excess above the average, and this difference starts to be observable in the showers with the energy above the 3 PeV knee of the primary cosmic ray spectrum. Later on, the rise of muon production in EAS after the knee was confirmed at Tien Shan by another experiment on detection of the neutrons stemmed from interaction of cosmic ray muons. Thus, the results obtained by the two completely different methods do mutually agree with each other but contradict to the common models of hadron interaction.
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