Characteristics of air showers created by extremely high energy gamma-rays

Abstract

The technique of adjoint cascade equations has been applied to calculate the properties of extremely high energy gamma-rays in the energy range 10^18--10^22 eV with taking into account the LPM effect and interactions of gamma-rays with the geomagnetic field. Such characteristics are analysed as the electron and muon contents at the observation level, the electron cascade curves, the lateral distribution functions of photoproduced muons.

36 pages, 19 figures, submitted to J.Phys.G: Nucl.Part.Phys

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