2007/07/15 by Yuri V. Stenkin, Stenkin, Yuri V.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0707.2231
Talk given at 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico (2007) 5 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2007/07/15 · openalex publication_date 2007/07/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is shown that Extensive Air Shower (EAS) longitudinal development has a critical point where an equilibrium between the main hadronic component and the secondary electromagnetic one exhibits a brake. This results in a change of slope in quasi-power law function Ne(Eo). The latter leads to a knee in the EAS size spectrum at primary energy of about 100 TeV/nucleon. Many ``strange'' experimental results can be successfully explained in the frames of current approach.