A measurement of the average longitudinal development profile of cosmic ray air showers between 1017 and 1018 eV

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-11

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

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

^d SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁱ Univ Illinois at Champaign Urbana ^*  (United States)

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

^k LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Michigan Technical University   (United States)

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Author keywords

13.85.Tp; 96.40.Pq; 98.70.Sa; Air shower; Cosmic ray

Indexed keywords

EID: 18044403070     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-6505(00)00170-5     Document Type: Article

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