Evidence for Changing of Cosmic Ray Composition between 1017 and 1018 eV from Multicomponent Measurements

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 4276-4279

  Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Belov, K ^a   Bird, D J ^e   Boyer, J ^d   Cao, Z ^a   Catanese, M ^c   Chen, G F ^a   Clay, R W ^e   Covault, C E ^b   Cronin, J W ^b   Dai, H Y ^a   Dawson, B R ^e   Elbert, J W ^a   Fick, B E ^b   Fortson, L F ^b,l   Fowler, J W ^b   Gibbs, K G ^b   Glasmacher, M A K ^g   Green, K D ^b   Ho, Y ^k   Haung, A ^a   Jui, C C ^a   Kidd, M J ^f   Kieda, D B ^a   Knapp, B C ^d   Ko, S ^a   Larsen, C G ^a   Lee, W ^k   Loh, E C ^a   Mannel, E J ^d   Matthews, J ^i,j   Matthews, J N ^a   Newport, B J ^b   Nitz, D F ^h   Ong, R A ^b   Simpson, K M ^e   Smith, J D ^a   Sinclair, D ^f   Sokolsky, P ^a   Sommers, P ^a   Song, C ^j   Tang, J K K ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Van der Velde, J C ^g   Wiencke, L R ^a   Wilkinson, C R ^e   Yoshida, S ^a   Zhang, X Z ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h Michigan Technical University   (United States)

ⁱ LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Astronomy Department ^*  (United States)

^l ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

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EID: 0000649564     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4276     Document Type: Article

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