INVESTIGADORES
DOVA Maria Teresa
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Phenomenology of cosmic ray air showers
Autor/es:
MARIA TERESA DOVA
Lugar:
Faro, Portugal
Reunión:
Workshop; Fifth International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics; 2005
Institución organizadora:
LIP, Portugal
Resumen:
The properties of cosmic rays with energies above 1PeV have to be deduced
from the spacetime structure and particle content of the air showers which they
initiate. In this review, a summary of the phenomenology of these giant air
showers is presented. We describe the hadronic interaction models used to
extrapolate results from collider data to ultra high energies, an also the main
electromagnetic processes that govern the longitudinal shower evolution as well
as the lateral spread of particles.