1998/09/21 by G. Wilk, Z. Włodarczyk, Z. Wlodarczyk · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Lévy flight #Mathematics #Neutrino Physics Research #Physics #Random walk #Statistics #cond-mat #hep-ph #nucl-th
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arxiv created 1998/09/21 · openalex publication_date 1999/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We argue that the so called long flying component (LFC) observed in some cosmic ray experiments are yet another manifestation of Lévy distributions (with index q=1.3), this time of the distribution observation probability of the depths of starting points of cascades. It means that LFC is governed by the so called long-tail Lévy-like anomalous superdiffusion, a phenomenon frequently encountered in Nature. Its connection with the so called Tsallis's statistics is also briefly discussed.