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How to solve the problem of the knee in the cosmic ray spectrum

  • Proceedings of the 32nd All-Russia Conference on Cosmic Rays
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It is shown that recent experimental data in the region of the knee in the cosmic ray spectrum are somewhat contradictory and new approaches are needed to solve the so-called knee problem. The RRISMA project that we propose is based on the simple idea of giving priority to detecting and studying hadrons as the major EAS component. Special detectors are therefore developed. The experiment should be conducted high in the mountains (the higher the better), where the number of hadrons is higher. We therefore proposed combining PRISMA and the LHAASO (Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory) now under construction in Tibet 4300 m above sea level.

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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    Yu. V. Stenkin

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Stenkin, 2013, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2013, Vol. 77, No. 5, pp. 701–703.

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Stenkin, Y.V. How to solve the problem of the knee in the cosmic ray spectrum. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 77, 632–634 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873813050493

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