Energy spectra of secondary particles in γ-families and their sensitivity to the primary cosmic ray (PCR) spectrum

Spectra of secondary particles in gamma-families, detected at the Pamirs level in X-ray emulsion chambers, are analyzed. This analysis showed that secondary particle spectra change their slope at the particle energy equal to the summary particle energy at which we select gamma-families. Above this bend the secondary particle slope is sensitive to the PCR spectrum slope and composition. The slopes of secondary particle spectra in the Experiment PAMIR are close to the slopes in the variants of the MC0 model, in which the fraction of primary protons is not less than 25% after the knee.