New approach to cosmic ray investigations above the knee

14th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics

物理学;天文学

Bogdanov, A.G.^1 ; Kokoulin, R.P.^1 ; Petrukhin, A.A.^1

National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow

115409, Russia^1

关键词: Energy spectra;    Mass composition;    New approaches;    Orbital momentum;    Quark-gluon;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/718/5/052029/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/718/5/052029

学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

It is assumed that at energies around the knee the nucleus-nucleus interaction is drastically changed due to production of blobs of quark-gluon matter with very large orbital momentum. This approach allows explain all so-called unusual events observed in cosmic rays and gives a new connection between results of EAS investigations and energy spectrum and mass composition of primary cosmic rays. To check this approach, the experiments in cosmic rays and at LHC are proposed.