Constraints on the fraction of primary gamma rays at ultra-high energies from the muon data of the Yakutsk EAS array

JETP Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 131-135

  Glushkov, A V ^a   Gorbunov, D S ^b   Makarov, I T ^a   Pravdin, M I ^a   Rubtsov, G I ^b,c   Sleptsov, I E ^a   Troitsky, S V ^b  

^a YU G SHAFER INSTITUTE OF COSMOPHYSICAL RESEARCH AND AERONOMY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

96.50.Sd; 98.70.Sa

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247375517     PISSN: 00213640     EISSN: 10906487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0021364007030010     Document Type: Article

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