Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1849582 Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 2008 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper we study how the knee in primary cosmic ray (PCR) spectrum can reveal itself in the hadron component of EAS cores. The comparison of CORSIKA+QGSJET calculations with available experimental data at mountain level (3340 m a. s. l.) shows that the suggestion about rigidity dependent energy position of the knee and the moderate change of spectrum slope in every nuclear component of PCR does not contradict experimental data.

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