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A Method for Estimation of the Parameters of the Primary Particle of an Extensive Air Shower by a High-Altitude Detector

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A method for estimation of the parameters of the primary particle of an extensive air shower (EAS) by a high-altitude detector complex is described. This method was developed as part of the Pamir-XXI project. The results may be useful for other high-altitude projects and the EAS method in general. The specific configurations of optical detectors for Cherenkov EAS radiation and charged-particle detectors, the methods for data processing, and the attainable accuracy of reconstruction of parameters of primary particles (energy, direction, mass/type) are presented. The results primarily cover optical detectors that are suitable for studying EASs from primary nuclei in the range of energies E0 = 100 TeV–100 PeV and showers from primary γ-quanta with energies of Eγ ≥ 30 TeV. Grids of charged-particle detectors designed to determine the EAS direction and energy in the E0 = 1 PeV–1 EeV range are also considered. The obtained accuracy estimates are the upper limits of the actual experimental accuracies.

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  1. Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. I. Galkin, R. Bakhromzod, V. V. Batraev & A. R. Muqumov

  2. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    V. I. Galkin

  3. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. S. Borisov

  4. Umarov Physical–Technical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 734063, Tajikistan

    R. Bakhromzod & A. R. Muqumov

  5. Faculty of Physics, Tajik National University, Dushanbe, 734025, Tajikistan

    S. Z. Latipova

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Galkin, A.S. Borisov, R. Bakhromzod, V.V. Batraev, S.Z. Latipova, A.R. Muqumov, 2018, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 3: Fizika, Astronomiya, 2018, No. 2, pp. 57–64.

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Galkin, V.I., Borisov, A.S., Bakhromzod, R. et al. A Method for Estimation of the Parameters of the Primary Particle of an Extensive Air Shower by a High-Altitude Detector. Moscow Univ. Phys. 73, 179–186 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027134918020078

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