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A new numerical model for investigating cosmic rays in the Earth’s atmosphere

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A software package that allows us to perform different model experiments to calculate detector response or simulate cosmic ray particles passing through the Earth’s atmosphere is presented.

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Original Russian Text © E.A. Maurchev, Yu.V. Balabin, B.B. Gvozdevsky, E.V. Vashenyuk, 2015, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2015, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 711–713.

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Maurchev, E.A., Balabin, Y.V., Gvozdevsky, B.B. et al. A new numerical model for investigating cosmic rays in the Earth’s atmosphere. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 79, 657–659 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873815050305

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