Measuring extensive air showers with Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array: The energy spectrum of cosmic rays
The energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the range 10^15 eV to 6*10^19 eV has been studied using the air Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array. The total flux of photons produced by relativistic electrons (including positrons as well, hereafter) of extensive air showers in the atmosphere is us...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.0902.1016 2023-05-15T18:45:23+02:00 Measuring extensive air showers with Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array: The energy spectrum of cosmic rays Ivanov, A. A. Knurenko, S. P. Sleptsov, I. Ye. 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0902.1016 https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1016 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/065008 arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0902.1016 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/065008 2022-04-01T15:02:10Z The energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the range 10^15 eV to 6*10^19 eV has been studied using the air Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array. The total flux of photons produced by relativistic electrons (including positrons as well, hereafter) of extensive air showers in the atmosphere is used as the energy estimator of the primary particle initiating a shower. The resultant differential flux of cosmic rays exhibits, in accordance with previous measurements, a knee and ankle features at energies 3*10^15 and ~10^19 eV, respectively. A comparison of observational data with simulations is made in the knee and ankle regions in order to choose the models of galactic and extragalactic components of cosmic rays which describe better the energy spectrum measured. : 27 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics (Focus Issue) Text Yakutsk DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Yakutsk |
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The energy spectrum of cosmic rays in the range 10^15 eV to 6*10^19 eV has been studied using the air Cherenkov light detectors of the Yakutsk array. The total flux of photons produced by relativistic electrons (including positrons as well, hereafter) of extensive air showers in the atmosphere is used as the energy estimator of the primary particle initiating a shower. The resultant differential flux of cosmic rays exhibits, in accordance with previous measurements, a knee and ankle features at energies 3*10^15 and ~10^19 eV, respectively. A comparison of observational data with simulations is made in the knee and ankle regions in order to choose the models of galactic and extragalactic components of cosmic rays which describe better the energy spectrum measured. : 27 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics (Focus Issue) |
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