Observations on muon multiplicity distribution with the GRAPES-2 experiment at Ooty for studies on the mass composition of cosmic rays at PeV energies

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Gupta, S K ^a   Gopalakrishnan, N V ^a   John, A V ^a   Mohanty, D K ^a   Morris, S D ^a   Ravindran, K C ^a   Sivaprasad, K ^a   Sreekantan, B V ^a   Srivatsan, R ^a   Tonwar, S C ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; ENERGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0142244666     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.052005     Document Type: Article

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