https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714519021
Study of the EAS size spectrum in thermal neutrons measured by the PRISMA-YBJ array
1 Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
2 Nuclear Research National University MEPhI, Russia
3 College of Physics and Information Engineering, Hebei Normal University, China
4 Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
a e-mail: shchegolev_oleg@mail.ru
Published online: 26 June 2017
An Extensive Air Shower array of a novel type has been constructed in Tibet at an altitude of 4300 m above sea level. It consists of specially designed scintillator en-detectors capable of measuring two main EAS components: hadrons (n) and electrons (e). Results of the experiment are presented. It is demonstrated that the EAS integral distribution in the number of thermal neutrons can be well fitted by a single power law function. Comparison with detailed Monte-Carlo simulations using CORSIKA6.9 and GEANT4.10 codes are also shown.
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