Purposeful investigation of radiation fluxes strongly delayed in relation to the main particles front of extensive air shower (EAS) was undertaken at the Tien Shan Mountain Cosmic Ray Station. It was found that the passage of the EAS can be accompanied by the delayed thermal neutrons and by the soft (30-50) keV gamma rays, mostly concentrated within a region of about (5-10) m around shower axis, where the integral radiation fluence can vary in the limits of (10 −4 − 1) cm −2 for neutrons, and of (0.1 − 1000) cm −2 for gamma rays. The dependence of signal multiplicity on the shower size N e has a power shape both for the neutron and gamma ray components, with a sharp increase of its power index around the value of N e ≈ 10 6 , which corresponds to the position of the 3 · 10 15 eV knee in the primary cosmic ray spectrum. Total duration of detectable radiation signal after the EAS passage can be of some tens of milliseconds in the case of neutron component, and up to a few whole seconds for gamma rays. The delayed accompaniment of low-energy radiation particles can be an effective probe to study the interaction of the hadronic component of EAS.

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The 2019 Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics was held in Piaski, a vacation resort located at the lake of Bełdany in the heart of the Great Mazurian Lakes District, from the 1 st to 7 th of September 2019. It was the 36 th meeting in a series initiated over 50 years ago, in 1968, by Professor Zdzisław Wilhelmi and his students and collaborators. Throughout these years, the Mazurian conferences have gained a worldwide reputation for their high scientific merit and a unique atmosphere. The 36 th meeting