Cosmic Ray Composition around the Knee from Eas Electromagnetic and Muon Data

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The EAS-TOP and MACRO Collaboration * We report the analysis of the N e-N µ 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 E µ > 1 GeV and uses the same (QGSJET) interaction model.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001