Fingerprint of Tsallis statistics in cosmic ray showers

2016/06/13 by Abrahão, M., Dantas, W. G., de Almeida, R. M. +2 · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.03923

Abstract

We investigate the impact of the Tsallis non extensive statistics introduced by intrinsic temperature fluctuations in p-Air ultra high energy interactions on observables of cosmic ray showers, such as the slant depth of the maximum Xmax and the muon number on the ground n_μ. The results show that these observables are significantly affected by temperature fluctuations and agree qualitatively with the Heitler model predictions.

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