GREX/COVER_PLASTEX: an experiment to analyze the space-time structure of extensive air showers produced by primary cosmic rays of 1015 eV

Agnetta, G.; Ambrosio, M.; Beaman, Joseph J.; Barbarino, G. C.; Biondo, B.; Catalano, O.; Colesanti, L.; D’Alí, G.; Guarino, F.; Lauro, A.; Lloyd‐Evans, J.; Mangano, A.; Popova, L.; Scarsi, L.; Watson, Alan

doi:10.1016/0168-9002(95)00041-0

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“…At the knee energy region only two experiments attempted to face the problem using Resistive Plate Counters (RPC) as muon detector for arrival time measurements and streamer tube telescopes for arrival direction identification. The first one, GREX_COVER PLASTEX (G/C_P), was built inside the GREX array in Haverah Park [7]. Four streamer tube telescopes made of six layers divided by a lead layer (Fig.…”

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Reconstruction of the muon production depth with ground array data based on the TTC (Time-Track Complementarity) approach

Ambrosio

Aramo

Cilmo

et al. 2013

EPJ Web of Conferences

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Abstract. The muon longitudinal profile along the shower axis depends on the nature of the primary particle and primary hadronic interaction with air nuclei. The measurement of muonic component inside showers generated by Very High Energy Cosmic Rays provides a very powerful tool for sensing high energy interactions between cosmic ray particles and air molecules. Fundamental parameters such as the interaction cross section, inelasticity, hadron production and multiplicity can be measured by comparing the development of shower electromagnetic component with that of muonic component. Since 1992 a method has been developed to combine the muon arrival direction in a ground based array for cosmic ray detection with their arrival delay with respect to the shower core. This combination permits to select high energy muons weakly scattered in the atmosphere and to reconstruct their height of production with good accuracy. In this paper we discuss the possibility to realize a "dual" apparatus able to detect both electromagnetic and muonic component at primary energies greater than 10 17 eV.

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