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Determining the primary cosmic ray energy from the total flux of Cherenkov light measured at the Yakutsk EAS array

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We present a method for determining the energy of the primary particle that generates an extensive air shower (EAS) of comic rays based on measuring the total flux of Cherenkov light from the shower. Applying this method to Cherenkov light measurements at the Yakutsk EAS array has allowed us to construct the cosmic ray energy spectrum in the range 1015 − 3 × 1019 eV.

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  1. Shafer Institute for Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, pr. Lenina 31, Yakutsk, 677891, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Ivanov, S.P. Knurenko, I.E. Sleptsov, 2007, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 131, No. 6, pp. 1001–1017.

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Ivanov, A.A., Knurenko, S.P. & Sleptsov, I.E. Determining the primary cosmic ray energy from the total flux of Cherenkov light measured at the Yakutsk EAS array. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 104, 872–886 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776107060052

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