Cosmic-ray energy spectrum around the knee obtained by the Tibet experiment and future prospects

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 629-639

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

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^p TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^q SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^s Sakushin Gakuin University   (Japan)

^t TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^u MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^v NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^w SHONAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^x RIKEN   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Knee region; Proton and helium spectra

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; EMULSIFICATION; HELIUM; PHASE COMPARATORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COSMIC RAY ENERGY SPECTRUM; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; FRACTION OF LIGHT; FUTURE PROSPECTS; HYBRID DETECTORS; KNEE REGIONS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 79251497769     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.08.029     Document Type: Article

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