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The ultra-high-energy (UHE) atmospheric showers with strong influence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect (here after LPM showers) are exclusively expected to be produced by UHE neutrinos. Studies on the characteristics of the LPM showers are essentially important to discriminate neutrino shower (which produced by neutrino interaction) from hadronic shower (initiated by primary hadron). We calculate the LPM showers initiated by electrons with energies of 1018 to 1021 eV, using the hybrid method as exactly as possible. Reflecting the change in the air density along the shower trajectories, the variety of the LPM-shower profiles is shown in different cases for their starting points in atmosphere. Through the study of time profiles of air fluorescent photon components from the LPM showers, the detection capability of UHE neutrinos has also been investigated by the satellite-based experiment with a large acceptance, e.g., the TUS experiment.
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Miyazawa, K., Higashide, K., Nakamura, I. et al. Landau-pomeranchuk-migdal air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy neutrinos and their detection in a satellite-based experiment. Jetp Lett. 93, 299–304 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364011060075
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