The Puzzle of Muons in Extensive Air Showers
arXiv:1902.09988 · doi:10.1142/S0218271819500974
Abstract
In order to examine a muon excess observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory, detailed Monte Carlo simulations were carried out for primary protons, iron nuclei and strangelets (hypothetical stable lumps of strange quark matter). We obtained a rough agreement between the simulations and the data for ordinary nuclei without any contribution of strangelets in primary flux of cosmic rays. Our simulations suggest that the shower observables are dominated by details of hadronic interaction models.
arXiv comment17 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics D
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