MACRO Collaborations | Searcharxiv

arXiv2001

Cosmic Ray composition around the knee from EAS electromagnetic and muon data

We report the analysis of the Ne-Nmuon coincident events collected by the MACRO/EAS-TOP collaboration at the Gran Sasso Laboratories. The result points to a primary composition becoming heavier around the knee of the primary spectrum (in the energy region 10**15-10**16 eV). The result is in very good agreement with the measurements of EAS-TOP alone at the surface, wich detects muons with energy Emuon > 1 GeV and uses the same (QGSJET) interaction model.

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arXiv2001

Study of CR primaries and their cascades at E0 = 10-100 TeV through EAS-TOP and MACRO

A measurement of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov light in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) at E0 = 10-100 TeV and a study of the compatibility of the photon number spectra with the expectations from the direct measurements of p and He spectra and the Corsika-QGSJET propagation code in the atmosphere have been performed at the National Gran Sasso Laboratories by the EAS-TOP and MACRO arrays. The telescope array of EAS-TOP has been used as the Cherenkov light detector. The muon tracking system of MACRO in the deep underground Gran Sasso Laboratories (Emuon> 1.3 TeV) served as the EAS detector, including core localization and arrival direction.

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