Are protons still dominant at the knee of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum?

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

Volumn 632, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-64

  Amenomori, M ^a   Ayabe, S ^b   Chen, D ^c   Cui, S W ^d   Danzengluobu, ^e   Ding, L K ^d   Ding, X H ^e   Feng, C F ^f   Feng, Z Y ^g   Gao, X Y ^h   Geng, Q X ^h   Guo, H W ^e   He, H H ^d   He, M ^f   Hibino, K ⁱ   Hotta, N ^j   Hu, Haibing ^e   Hu, H B ^d   Huang, J ^k   Huang, Q ^g   Jia, H Y ^g   Kajino, F ^l   Kasahara, K ^m   Katayose, Y ^c   Kato, C ⁿ   Kawata, K ^k   Labaciren, ^e   Le, G M ^o   Li, J Y ^f   Lu, H ^d   Lu, S L ^d   Meng, X R ^e   Mizutani, K ^b   Mu, J ^h   Munakata, K ⁿ   Nagai, A ^j   Nanjo, H ^a   Nishizawa, M ^p   Ohnishi, M ^k   Ohta, I ^j   Onuma, H ^b   Ouchi, T ⁱ   Ozawa, S ^k   Ren, J R ^d   Saito, T ^q   Sakata, M ^l   Sasaki, T ⁱ   Shibata, M ^c   Shiomi, A ^k   Shirai, T ⁱ   Sugimoto, H ^r   Takita, M ^k   Tan, Y H ^d   Tateyama, N ⁱ   Torii, S ^s   Tsuchiya, H ^t   Udo, S ^k   Wang, H ^d   Wang, X ^b   Wang, Y G ^f   Wu, H R ^d   Xue, L ^f   Yamamoto, Y ^l   Yan, C T ^k   Yang, X C ^h   Yasue, S ⁿ   Ye, Z H ^o   Yu, G C ^g   Yuan, A F ^e   Yuda, T ⁱ   Zhang, H M ^d   Zhang, J L ^d   Zhang, N J ^f   Zhang, X Y ^f   Zhang, Y ^d   Zhang, Yi ^d   Zhaxisangzhu, ^e   Zhou, X X ^g   more..

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^e TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g INSTITUTE OF MODERN PHYSICS   (China)

^h YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

ⁿ SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^q TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING   (Japan)

^r SHONAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^s WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t RIKEN   (Japan)

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Author keywords

family; Cosmic rays; Knee energy region; Neural network; Proton

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144476716     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.048     Document Type: Article

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