The Heidelberg cosmic ray project - aims and status

Results from a three-dimensional hybrid Monte Carlo calculation for the secondary gamma composition at sea level for gamma-and proton-initiated extensive air showen (EAS) with primary energies 10, IW, IOOO, and lOOOOTeV are presented. For each primary energy, the distributions of the number of secondary gammas and their lateral spread with corresponding fits are reported for secondary threshold energies of 3, 10,30, and 100 MeV. The distributions for secondary gammas are compared to those for secondary electrons. Results show a large enhancement of law-energy secondary gammas compared to the number of secondary electrons for bath primaries. The secondary gamma composition of hadronic and electromagnetic EAS are presented. An experimental measurement of the secondary gamma component using the project GRAND detecton has been obtained; there is good agreement between the experimeniai resuii and ihe Monte Cario predictions ihus yieiding an experiment4 check of this hybrid Monte Carlo method.

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The Heidelberg cosmic ray project - aims and status

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Gamma rays and energetic particles from primordial black holes

Gamma rays and energetic particles from primordial black holes

The secondary gamma composition from hadronic and electromagnetic extensive air showers at 10, 100, 1000, and 10000 TeV

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