Air-shower simulations with and without thinning: Artificial fluctuations and their suppression

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Gorbunov, D S ^a   Rubtsov, G I ^a,b   Troitsky, S V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 34548092694     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043004     Document Type: Article

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