Modelling Horizontal Air Showers Induced by Cosmic Rays

Abstract

We present a framework for the study of muon density patterns on the ground due to showers produced in the atmosphere by cosmic rays incident at high zenith angles. As a checking procedure predictions of a model based on such a framework are compared to simulation results.

36 pages, 19 figures

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