Prompt muons in extended air showers

2007/06/14 by Ridky, J., Nosek, D., Travnicek, P. +1
#Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0706.2145

Abstract

We present results of simulations of a muon content in the air showers induced by very high energy cosmic rays. Muon energy distributions and muon densities at ground level are given. We discuss a prompt muon component generated by decays of charm mesons. The method combines standard Monte Carlo generators incorporated in the CORSIKA code and phenomenological estimates of the charm hadroproduction.

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