Depth of the Maximum of Extensive Air Showers (EASes) and the Mean Mass Composition of Primary Cosmic Rays in the 10$^{15}$–10$^{18}$ eV Range of Energies, According to Data from the TUNKA-133 and TAIGA-HiSCORE Arrays for Detecting EAS Cherenkov Light in the Tunkinsk Valley

• Published in: Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics
• Main Authors: Prosin, V. V., Astapov, I. I., Voronin, D., Gafarov, A. R., Garmash, A. Yu., Grebenyuk, V. M., Gress, O. A., Gress, T. I., Grinyuk, A. A., Grishin, O. G., Dyachok, A. N., Zhurov, D. P., Bezyazeekov, P. A., Zagorodnikov, A. V., Ivanova, A. L., Kalmykov, N. N., Kindin, V. V., Kiryuhin, S. N., Kozhin, V. A., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Korosteleva, E. E., Kravchenko, E. A., Borodin, A. N., Kryukov, A. P., Kuzmichev, L. A., Chiavassa, A., Lavrova, M., Lagutin, A. A., Lemeshev, Yu., Lubsandorzhiev, B. K., Lubsandorzhiev, N. B., Mirgazov, R. R., Mirzoyan, R., Brueckner, Martin, Monkhoev, R. D., Osipova, E. A., Pan, A., Panasyuk, M. I., Pankov, L. V., Pakhorukov, A. L., Petrukhin, A. A., Poleschuk, V. A., Popesku, M., Popova, E. G., Budnev, N. M., Porelli, Andrea, Postnikov, E. B., Ptuskin, V. S., Pushnin, A. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Allerton Press 2021
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530; showers: atmosphere; cosmic radiation: primary; radiation: Cherenkov; energy dependence; mass spectrum; observatory; Auger; air; taiga
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/459567; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2021-02609%22

A corrected energy dependence of the depth of the maximum in the wide range of energies 10$^{15}$ to 10$^{18}$ eV is obtained using data collected at the Tunka-133 facility over 7 years of operation (2009–2017) and the TAIGA-HiSCORE facility in the 2019–2020 season. At the highest energies, our results match those of the Pierre Auger observatory. The results are converted to parameter ❬ln A❭, which characterizes the mean EAS composition.