Extensive Air Showers’ Arrival Direction Distribution by TBS Array

Abstract

The distribution of the arrival zenith angle of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) with a wide range of a total number of charged particles is studied using the experimental data obtained using the EAS 4-detector array "TSU" in Tbilisi. The station is a part of the GELATICA net in Georgia (GEorgian Large-area Angle and TIme Coincidence Array), which is devoted to the study of possible correlations in the arrival times and directions of separate EAS events over large distances. It is shown that the distribution function with the conventional exponential dependence of showers' flux on absorbing air thickness provides a good approximation for the arrival direction distribution. The dependence of the EAS absorption path estimation on the angular trimming boundary of data set is studied; the necessity of strict verification of the used value of data trimming boundary is stated.

First Results on the Revealing of Cognate Ancestors among the Particles of the Primary Cosmic Rays That Gave Rise to Extensive Air Showers Observed by the GELATICA Network

“…The typical error of EAS movement direction estimation usually achieved by the GELATICA goniometers [37][38][39] (integral of statistical and systematic error estimations in respect of the equivalent spherical angles) is approximately 3 • × sec(θ) for the zenith angle estimation and 3 • × csc(θ) for the azimuth angle estimation, where θ is a zenith angle. (Certainly, every shower event has its own individual estimation of the covariance matrix D of the components of the unit directional vector's estimations.)…”