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Contribution Poster (WITHDRAWN)
Speakers
- Dr. Rabin CHHETRI
Primary authors
- Mr. Samir Kumar SARKAR (North Bengal University)
Co-authors
- Dr. Rabin CHHETRI (Sikkim Govt. College, Gangtok, Sikkim, India)
Abstract content
The measurements of electron density at different locations of shower front incident with different zenith angle (theta) from 0 to 60 degree, obtained by NBU Air Shower array (Latitude: 26 degree 42 min. North and Longitude: 88 degree 21 min. East and about 130 m above sea level), are studied to investigate correlation between lateral shower age (s) with atmospheric depth and electron size spectra of EAS in the size range 10^4.6 to 10^6.4 particles. It is observed that the variation of shower age with zenith angle (Theta) is linear with increasing slope at higher shower sizes. Our estimated values of ds (Theta)/dx is similar to that of other experiments. EAS size spectra for young (s<1.2) and old showers (s>=1.2) as well as for low (0 degree <= Theta <= 30 degree) and high zenith angles (30 degree < Theta <= 60 degree) are also studied. Our measurements show that young showers exhibit the knee feature while it is not evident for old showers. It is also observed that the knee position changes towards the lower value of N_e for higher atmospheric depth. The absence of knee for older showers may possibly indicate their origin from heavier primary with different knee position.