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Depth of the Maximum of Extensive Air Showers (EASes) and the Mean Mass Composition of Primary Cosmic Rays in the 1015–1018 eV Range of Energies, According to Data from the TUNKA-133 and TAIGA-HiSCORE Arrays for Detecting EAS Cherenkov Light in the Tunkinsk Valley

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A corrected energy dependence of the depth of the maximum in the wide range of energies 1015 to 1018 eV is obtained using data collected at the Tunka-133 facility over 7 years of operation (2009–2017) and the TAIGA-HiSCORE facility in the 2019–2020 season. At the highest energies, our results match those of the Pierre Auger observatory. The results are converted to parameter ❬ln A❭, which characterizes the mean EAS composition.

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This work was supported by the RF Ministry of Education and Science as part of State Task no. FZZE-2020-0024, agreement no. 075-15-2019-1631; and by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 19-72-20067, section 2.

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  1. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    V. V. Prosin, A. Bulan, P. Volchugov, N. N. Kalmykov, V. A. Kozhin, E. E. Korosteleva, A. P. Kryukov, L. A. Kuzmichev, N. B. Lubsandorzhiev, E. A. Osipova, M. I. Panasyuk, E. G. Popova, E. B. Postnikov, L. G. Sveshnikova, A. A. Silaev, A. A. Silaev Jr. & A. V. Skurikhin

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, 115409, Moscow, Russia

    I. I. Astapov, V. V. Kindin, R. P. Kokoulin, K. G. Kompaniets, A. A. Petrukhin, Y. Suvorkin, A. Tanaev, M. Ternovoy & I. I. Yashin

  3. Research Institute of Applied Physics, Irkutsk State University, 664003, Irkutsk, Russia

    P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev, A. R. Gafarov, O. A. Gress, T. I. Gress, O. G. Grishin, A. N. Dyachok, D. P. Zhurov, A. V. Zagorodnikov, A. L. Ivanova, S. N. Kiryuhin, M. Lavrova, Yu. Lemeshev, R. R. Mirgazov, R. Mirzoyan, R. D. Monkhoev, A. Pan, L. V. Pankov, A. L. Pakhorukov, V. A. Poleschuk, A. A. Pushnin, E. V. Ryabov, V. S. Samoliga, V. A. Tabolenko & B. A. Tarashansky

  4. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    A. N. Borodin, V. M. Grebenyuk, A. A. Grinyuk, Ya. I. Sagan, M. Slunecka & L. G. Tkachev

  5. German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany

    M. Brückner, A. Vaidyanathan, R. Wischnewski & A. Porelli

  6. Novosibirsk State University, 300900, Novosibirsk, Russia

    D. Voronin, A. Yu. Garmash, E. A. Kravchenko, A. V. Sokolov & N. Ushakov

  7. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603155, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    A. Yu. Garmash, E. A. Kravchenko & A. V. Sokolov

  8. Dubna State University, 141982, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    V. M. Grebenyuk, Ya. I. Sagan & L. G. Tkachev

  9. Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    M. Tluczykont & D. Horns

  10. Department of Physics and INFN, Torino University, 10124, Turin, Italy

    A. Chiavassa

  11. Altai State University, 656049, Barnaul, Altai krai, Russia

    A. A. Lagutin, R. I. Raikin & A. Yu. Sidorenkov

  12. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142190, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia

    B. K. Lubsandorzhiev & G. I. Rubtsov

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    R. Mirzoyan

  14. Institute of Space Sciences, 077125, Bucharest, Romania

    M. Popesku

  15. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142191, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia

    V. S. Ptuskin

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Prosin, V.V., Astapov, I.I., Bezyazeekov, P.A. et al. Depth of the Maximum of Extensive Air Showers (EASes) and the Mean Mass Composition of Primary Cosmic Rays in the 1015–1018 eV Range of Energies, According to Data from the TUNKA-133 and TAIGA-HiSCORE Arrays for Detecting EAS Cherenkov Light in the Tunkinsk Valley. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 85, 395–397 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873821040298

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