Extensive Air Showers: from the muonic smoking guns to the hadronic backbone
Extensive Air Showers are complex macroscopic objects initiated by single ultra-high energy particles. They are the result of millions of high energy reactions in the atmosphere and can be described as the superposition of hadronic and electromagnetic cascades. The hadronic cascade is the air shower...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2013-06-01
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| Series: | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20125203003 |