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用荧光和切伦科夫光测量重建超高能Cosmic Ray簇射的纵剖面

Reconstruction of Longitudinal Profiles of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Showers from Fluorescence and Cherenkov Light Measurements

M. Unger, B. R. Dawson, R. Engel, F. Schüssler, R. Ulrich

摘要:

本文提出了一种重建超高能宇宙射线引起的大范围空气簇射纵向剖面的新方法。与通常考虑的簇射尺寸分布相反,该方法直接利用簇射颗粒在大气中的电离能沉积。由于电子和正电子能谱的普适性,荧光和切伦科夫光可以同时用作信号,以从检测到的光推断簇射轮廓。该方法是基于一个分析的最小二乘解估计的簇射轮廓从观察到的光信号。此外,外推的观测部分的配置文件与Gaisser-Hillas函数进行了讨论和总的统计不确定性的簇射参数,如总能量和簇射最大值计算。

英文摘要:

We present a new method for the reconstruction of the longitudinal profile of extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In contrast to the typically considered shower size profile, this method employs directly the ionization energy deposit of the shower particles in the atmosphere. Due to universality of the energy spectra of electrons and positrons, both fluorescence and Cherenkov light can be used simultaneously as signal to infer the shower profile from the detected light. The method is based on an analytic least-square solution for the estimation of the shower profile from the observed light signal. Furthermore, the extrapolation of the observed part of the profile with a Gaisser-Hillas function is discussed and the total statistical uncertainty of shower parameters like total energy and shower maximum is calculated.

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