https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159910001
Shower center of gravity and interaction characteristics
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow
a e-mail: kheyn@mail.cern.ch
Published online: 4 August 2015
The shower center of gravity is used for studying the interconnection between shower longitudinal profile and hadronic interaction characteristics. The equations for the shower originated by high energy proton in the atmosphere are written and, within certain simplifications, solved for the case of logarithmically decreasing interaction length of hadrons in the air. The obtained expression explicitely splits into center of gravity of the purely electromagnetic cascade at the primary proton energy and modification of that by hadronic cascading and provides transparent view of the way in which hadronic interaction characteristics determine the longitudinal shower development.
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