Observation of the ankle and evidence for a high-energy break in the cosmic ray spectrum

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 619, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 271-280

  Abbasi, R U ^a   Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Amman, J F ^b   Archbold, G ^a   Atkins, R ^a   Bellido, J A ^c   Belov, K ^a   Belz, J W ^d   Ben Zvi, S Y ^e   Bergman, D R ^f   Burt, G W ^a   Cao, Z ^a   Clay, R W ^c   Connolly, B C ^e   Deng, W ^a   Dawson, B R ^c   Fedorova, Y ^a   Findlay, J ^a   Finley, C B ^e   Hanlon, W F ^a   Hoffman, C M ^b   Hughes, G A ^f   Holzscheiter, M H ^b   Huntemeyer P ^a   Jui, C C H ^a   Kim, K ^a   Kirn, M A ^d   Loh, E G ^a   Maestas, M M ^a   Manago, N ^h   Marek, L J ^b   Martens, K ^a   Matthews, J A J ^g   Matthews, J N ^a   O'Neill, A ^e   Painter, C A ^b   Perera, L ^f   Reil, K ^a   Riehle, R ^a   Roberts, M ^g   Sasaki, M ^h   Schnetzer, S R ^f   Simpson, K M ^c   Sinnis, G ^b   Smith, J D ^a   Snow, R ^a   Sokolsky, P ^a   Song, C ^e   Springer, R W ^a   Stokes, B T ^a   Thomas, J R ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Thomson, G B ^f   Tupa, D ^b   Westerhoff, S ^e   Wiencke, L R ^a   Zech, A ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e Nevis Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;

EID: 21544435746     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.05.064     Document Type: Article

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