ON THE ACCURACY OF THE PRIMARY ENERGY AND NUCLEI DETERMINATION AT MOUNTAIN ALTITUDES AND SEA LEVEL

摘要

The information carried by EAS of the energy range 10(14) - 10(17) eV is limited by significant fluctuations of the shower development, insufficient experimental sampling and uncertainties of the detector response. Additional uncertainties arise from different simulation procedures and statistical methods used for inferring the results. We propose to combine an advanced EAS simulation program like CORSIKA with the ANI multivariate statistical analysis package for an event-by-event analysis and for a standardization of the inference from EAS data. We illustrate the technique for simulated results of two different detector locations: ANI at a mountain altitude and KASCADE at sea level. [References: 10]