A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations

Autores
Hansen, Patricia María; Alvarez Muñiz, Jaime; Vázquez, R. A.
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
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By means of Monte Carlo simulations of extensive air showers (EAS), we have performed a comprehensive study of the shower to shower fluctuations affecting the longitudinal and lateral development of EAS. We split the fluctuations into physical fluctuations and those induced by the thinning procedure customarily applied to simulate showers at EeV energies and above. We study the influence of thinning on the calculation of the shower to shower fluctuations in the simulations. For thinning levels larger than R thin  = 10 −5  − 10 −6 , the determination of the shower to shower fluctuations is hampered by the artificial fluctuations induced by the thinning procedure. However, we show that shower to shower fluctuations can still be approximately estimated, and we provide expressions to calculate them. The influence of fluctuations of the depth of first interaction on the determination of shower to shower fluctuations is also addressed.
Instituto de Física La Plata
Materia
Astronomía
Cosmic rays
Extensive air showers
Ground detector
Simulation
Muon component
Electromagnetic component
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
title A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
spellingShingle A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
Hansen, Patricia María
Astronomía
Cosmic rays
Extensive air showers
Ground detector
Simulation
Muon component
Electromagnetic component
title_short A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
title_full A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
title_fullStr A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
title_full_unstemmed A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
title_sort A comprehensive study of shower to shower fluctuations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hansen, Patricia María
Alvarez Muñiz, Jaime
Vázquez, R. A.
author Hansen, Patricia María
author_facet Hansen, Patricia María
Alvarez Muñiz, Jaime
Vázquez, R. A.
author_role author
author2 Alvarez Muñiz, Jaime
Vázquez, R. A.
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Astronomía
Cosmic rays
Extensive air showers
Ground detector
Simulation
Muon component
Electromagnetic component
topic Astronomía
Cosmic rays
Extensive air showers
Ground detector
Simulation
Muon component
Electromagnetic component
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv By means of Monte Carlo simulations of extensive air showers (EAS), we have performed a comprehensive study of the shower to shower fluctuations affecting the longitudinal and lateral development of EAS. We split the fluctuations into physical fluctuations and those induced by the thinning procedure customarily applied to simulate showers at EeV energies and above. We study the influence of thinning on the calculation of the shower to shower fluctuations in the simulations. For thinning levels larger than R thin  = 10 −5  − 10 −6 , the determination of the shower to shower fluctuations is hampered by the artificial fluctuations induced by the thinning procedure. However, we show that shower to shower fluctuations can still be approximately estimated, and we provide expressions to calculate them. The influence of fluctuations of the depth of first interaction on the determination of shower to shower fluctuations is also addressed.
Instituto de Física La Plata
description By means of Monte Carlo simulations of extensive air showers (EAS), we have performed a comprehensive study of the shower to shower fluctuations affecting the longitudinal and lateral development of EAS. We split the fluctuations into physical fluctuations and those induced by the thinning procedure customarily applied to simulate showers at EeV energies and above. We study the influence of thinning on the calculation of the shower to shower fluctuations in the simulations. For thinning levels larger than R thin  = 10 −5  − 10 −6 , the determination of the shower to shower fluctuations is hampered by the artificial fluctuations induced by the thinning procedure. However, we show that shower to shower fluctuations can still be approximately estimated, and we provide expressions to calculate them. The influence of fluctuations of the depth of first interaction on the determination of shower to shower fluctuations is also addressed.
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