http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07835
The effect of the geomagnetic Lorentz force on extensive air shower (EAS) charged muon components has been studied in a Monte Carlo (MC) generated simulated data sample. This geomagnetic field (GF) affects the paths of the secondary charged muons in the EAS, causing a local contrast or asymmetry in the abundance of positive and negative muons which is noticeable for some azimuthal and zenith angles. Consequent upon, a transverse separation of positive and negative muons cores of EAS is observed at different azimuthal positions through the EAS core. In the present study using a simulated data sample it is found that the transverse or lateral muon core separation (LMCS) and its maximum value (MLMCS) are quite sensitive to the nature of shower initiating particles, particularly for inclined showers and hence in principle the parameters can be exploited to the measurement of primary cosmic-ray (CR) chemical composition. Possibility of practical realization of the stated method in a real experiment is briefly discussed.
R. Dey and S. Dam
Mon, 28 Mar 16
11/40
Comments: 10 pages, 17 figures, updated version is under preparation for Journal submission
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