Time Structure of Muonic Showers

Abstract

An analytical description of the time structure of the pulses induced by muons in air showers at ground level is deduced assuming the production distance distribution for the muons can be obtained elsewhere. The results of this description are compared against those obtained from simulated showers using AIRES. Major contributions to muon time delays are identified and a relation between the time structure and the depth distribution is unveiled.

18 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics

References in corpus (3)

• AIRES: A system for air shower simulations
• Modelling Horizontal Air Showers Induced by Cosmic Rays
• Monte Carlo Study of the Arrival Time Distribution of Particles in Extensive Air Showers in the Energy Range 1--100 TeV

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