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Interpretation of the depths of maximum of extensive air showers measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory
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Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics. Iop Publishing Ltd, n. 2, 2013.
1475-7516
WOS:000315576400026
10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/026
Autor
Abreu, P
Aglietta, M
Ahlers, M
Ahn, EJ
Albuquerque, IFM
Allekotte, I
Allen, J
Allison, P
Almela, A
Castillo, JA
Alvarez-Muniz, J
Batista, RA
Ambrosio, M
Aminaei, A
Anchordoqui, L
Andringa, S
Anticic, T
Aramo, C
Arqueros, F
Asorey, H
Assis, P
Aublin, J
Ave, M
Avenier, M
Avila, G
Badescu, AM
Barber, KB
Barbosa, AF
Bardenet, R
Baughman, B
Bauml, J
Baus, C
Beatty, JJ
Becker, KH
Belletoile, A
Bellido, JA
BenZvi, S
Berat, C
Bertou, X
Biermann, PL
Billoir, P
Blanco, F
Blanco, M
Bleve, C
Blumer, H
Bohacova, M
Boncioli, D
Bonifazi, C
Bonino, R
Borodai, N
Brack, J
Brancus, I
Brogueira, P
Brown, WC
Buchholz, P
Bueno, A
Buroker, L
Burton, RE
Buscemi, M
Caballero-Mora, KS
Caccianiga, B
Caccianiga, L
Caramete, L
Caruso, R
Castellina, A
Cataldi, G
Cazon, L
Cester, R
Cheng, SH
Chiavassa, A
Chinellato, JA
Chudoba, J
Cilmo, M
Clay, RW
Cocciolo, G
Colalillo, R
Collica, L
Coluccia, MR
Conceicao, R
Contreras, F
Cook, H
Cooper, MJ
Coppens, J
Coutu, S
Covault, CE
Criss, A
Cronin, J
Curutiu, A
Dallier, R
Daniel, B
Dasso, S
Daumiller, K
Dawson, BR
de Almeida, RM
De Domenico, M
de Jong, SJ
De La Vega, G
de Mello, WJM
de Mello, JRT
De Mitri, I
de Souza, V
de Vries, KD
del Peral, L
Deligny, O
Dembinski, H
Dhital, N
Di Giulio, C
Diaz, JC
Castro, MLD
Diep, PN
Diogo, F
Dobrigkeit, C
Docters, W
D'Olivo, JC
Dong, PN
Dorofeev, A
dos Anjos, JC
Dova, MT
D'Urso, D
Ebr, J
Engel, R
Erdmann, M
Escobar, CO
Espadanal, J
Etchegoyen, A
San Luis, PF
Falcke, H
Fang, K
Farrar, G
Fauth, AC
Fazzini, N
Ferguson, AP
Fick, B
Figueira, JM
Filevich, A
Filipcic, A
Fliescher, S
Fox, BD
Fracchiolla, CE
Fraenkel, ED
Fratu, O
Frohlich, U
Fuchs, B
Gaior, R
Gamarra, RF
Gambetta, S
Garcia, B
Roca, STG
Garcia-Gamez, D
Garcia-Pinto, D
Garilli, G
Bravo, AG
Gemmeke, H
Ghia, PL
Giller, M
Gitto, J
Glaser, C
Glass, H
Golup, G
Albarracin, FG
Berisso, MG
Vitale, PFG
Goncalves, P
Gonzalez, JG
Gookin, B
Gorgi, A
Gorham, P
Gouffon, P
Grebe, S
Griffith, N
Grillo, AF
Grubb, TD
Guardincerri, Y
Guarino, F
Guedes, GP
Hansen, P
Harari, D
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Horandel, JR
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Huber, D
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de Oliveira, MAL
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Lopez, R
Aguera, AL
Louedec, K
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Ludwig, M
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Bravo, OM
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Westerhoff, S
Whelan, BJ
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Williams, C
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Wundheiler, B
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Yapici, T
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Yuan, G
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Garcia, BZ
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Silva, MZ
Ziolkowski, M
Institución
Resumen
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) To interpret the mean depth of cosmic ray air shower maximum and its dispersion, we parametrize those two observables as functions of the first two moments of the ln A distribution. We examine the goodness of this simple method through simulations of test mass distributions. The application of the parameterization to Pierre Auger Observatory data allows one to study the energy dependence of the mean ln A and of its variance under the assumption of selected hadronic interaction models. We discuss possible implications of these dependences in term of interaction models and astrophysical cosmic ray sources. 2 Comision Nacional de Energia Atoomica, Argentina Fundacion Antorchas, Argentina Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina Municipalidad de Malargue, Argentina NDM Holdings, Argentina Valle Las Lenas, Argentina Australian Research Council Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Brazil Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT), Brazil AVCR, Czech Republic [AV0Z10100502, AV0Z10100522] GAAV, Czech Republic [KJB100100904] MSMT-CR, Czech Republic [LA08016, LG11044, MEB111003, MSM0021620859, LA08015] TACR, Czech Republic [TA01010517] GA U.K., Czech Republic [119810] Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, France Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, France Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), France Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Germany Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Germany Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Germany Forschung und Kunst, Germany Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologa (CONACYT), Mexico Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Netherlands Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland [N N202 200239, N N202 207238] Portuguese national funds, Portugal FEDER funds within COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal Romanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, Romania [20/2012, 194/2012, 1/ASPERA2/2012 ERA-NET, PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0145-17] Ministry for Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia Comunidad de Madrid, Spain FEDER funds, Spain Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion and Consolider-Ingenio (CPAN), Spain Xunta de Galicia, Spain Leverhulme Foundation, United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, DE-FG02-99ER41107] National Science Foundation [0450696] Grainger Foundation U.S.A. NAFOS-TED, Vietnam Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET European Particle Physics Latin American Network European Union [PIRSES-2009-GA-246806] UNESCO Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) AVCR, Czech Republic [AV0Z10100502, AV0Z10100522] GAAV, Czech Republic [KJB100100904] MSMT-CR, Czech Republic [LA08016, LG11044, MEB111003, MSM0021620859, LA08015] TACR, Czech Republic [TA01010517] GA U.K., Czech Republic [119810] Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland [N N202 200239, N N202 207238] Romanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, Romania [20/2012, 194/2012, 1/ASPERA2/2012 ERA-NET, PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0145-17] Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, DE-FG02-99ER41107] National Science Foundation [0450696] European Union [PIRSES-2009-GA-246806]