Extensive air showers and measurement techniques

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 463-472

  Sommers, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air showers; Chemical composition; Detection techniques; Gaisser Hillas function; Longitudinal profile; Superposition model

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542456555     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2004.03.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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