Chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays estimated by muon measurement with AGASA

29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2005

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 151-154

  Shinozaki, K ^b   Chikawa, M ^c   Fukushima, M ^a   Hayashida, N ^a   Honda, K ^d   Inoue, N ^e   Kadota, K ^f   Kakimoto, F ^g   Kamata, K ^d,h   Kawaguchi, S ⁱ   Kawakami, S ^j   Kawasaki, Y ^k   Kawasumi, N ^d   Mase, K ^l   Mizobuchi, S ^b,m   Nagano, M ⁿ   Ohoka, H ^a   Osone, S ^o   Sakaki, N ^p   Sakurai, N ^l   Sasano, M ^q   Shimizu, H M ^k   Takeda, M ^a   Teshima, M ^b   Torii, R ^a   Tsushima, I ^d   Uchihori, Y ^r   Yamamoto, T ^s   Yoshida, S ^l   Yoshii, H ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h Nishina Memorial Foundation   (Japan)

ⁱ HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^k INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^l CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ FUKUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^p AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q NATIONAL MARITIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS;

AKENO GIANT AIR SHOWER ARRAYS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; INTERACTION MODEL; ULTRA HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 72949083990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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