Primary proton spectrum around the knee deduced from the emulsion-chamber data obtained at Mts. Fuji and Kanbala

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 637-648

  Huang, J ^a   Hotta, N ^a   Kasahara, K ^b   Ohta, I ^a   Ozawa, S ^a   Saito, T ^c   Shibata, M ^d   Xu, X W ^e   Yuda, T ^f  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray; Emulsion chamber; Gamma family; Knee region; Monte Carlo simulation; Neural network; Proton

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037366230     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-6505(02)00182-2     Document Type: Article

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