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A new method for the UHECR mass composition studies

M. Ambrosio, C. Aramo, D. D'Urso, A. D. Erlykin, F. Guarino, A. Insolia

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0410179

Abstract

The detemination of the primary cosmic ray mass composition from the longitudinal development of atmospheric cascades is still an open problem. In this work we propose a new method of the multiparametric topological analysis and show that if both Xmax - the depth of shower maximum and Nmax - the number of charged particles in the shower maximum are used, reliable results can be obtained.

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