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The Behavior of the Mean Multiplicity Coefficients of ASEC Neutron Monitors During Thunderstorm Activity. Armen Hovhannisyan. Aragats Neutron Monitor. 3 Dead Times of Neutron Monitor. Mean Multiplicity Coefficient. Nucleon double counting effect. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Behavior of the Mean Multiplicity Coefficients of ASEC
Neutron Monitors During Thunderstorm Activity
Armen Hovhannisyan
Aragats Neutron Monitor
3 Dead Times of Neutron Monitor
Mean Multiplicity Coefficient
1
1
M
mmM
mm
mNm
N
0.4
1250
1,3i
ii
Nm i
N
0.004±1.207m
Nucleon double counting effect
Correlation Matrix of ArNM – Dead Time 1250mcs
Det 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1 * 14 2 -1 -4 5 0 -5 -4 -1 -3 2 4 2 1 3 3 -4
2 14 * 12 3 2 -1 0 -1 -4 -4 -4 -1 4 0 -1 1 2 4
3 2 12 * 10 5 -3 0 5 1 -1 -1 0 -2 1 -6 -2 -2 2
4 -1 3 10 * 10 7 5 9 0 -1 -2 0 -2 2 -4 -1 0 -2
5 -4 2 5 10 * 16 3 0 3 -1 -5 -1 1 -2 1 1 2 4
6 5 -1 -3 7 16 * 6 -1 1 -3 -1 6 -1 1 4 -1 0 2
7 0 0 0 5 3 6 * 15 10 1 3 -3 3 -5 2 -1 1 4
8 -5 -1 5 9 0 -1 15 * 19 6 1 1 -2 1 1 -1 -1 4
9 -4 -4 1 0 3 1 10 19 * 11 7 3 -1 -7 0 1 2 0
10 -1 -4 -1 -1 -1 -3 1 6 11 * 11 1 3 1 1 -2 2 0
11 -3 -4 -1 -2 -5 -1 3 1 7 11 * 15 3 -4 0 -1 0 0
12 2 -1 0 0 -1 6 -3 1 3 1 15 * 5 3 4 -2 0 -1
13 4 4 -2 -2 1 -1 3 -2 -1 3 3 5 * 12 8 1 6 1
14 2 0 1 2 -2 1 -5 1 -7 1 -4 3 12 * 12 5 3 -6
15 1 -1 -6 -4 1 4 2 1 0 1 0 4 8 12 * 11 3 1
16 3 1 -2 -1 1 -1 -1 -1 1 -2 -1 -2 1 5 11 * 19 7
17 3 2 -2 0 2 0 1 -1 2 2 0 0 6 3 3 19 * 16
18 -4 4 2 -2 4 2 4 4 0 0 0 -1 1 -6 1 7 16 *
Estimated Mean Multiplicities
3,2,1;1250
4.0
iN
NNm
i
idouble
ii
Section1 Section2 Section3 NM median
ANM 1.43±0.008 1.425±0.008 1.42±0.009 1.425
NANM 1.44±0.013 1.43±0.012 1.42±0.012 1.43
The dependence of mean multiplicity on the cutoff rigidity (measurements by ship borne 3NM-64 of IQSY
type in December 1966 – April 1967, Kodama & Ishida, 1967). By open circles are denoted mean multiplicities
of the ArNM and NANM
Mean Multiplicity and EAS
Average number of > 4σ spikes: 4±2Expected Number of > 4σ spikes according to gaussian( ) distribution: 0.126.1/2 ndf
)(***0
E
dEEASTN
GevE 60 10*3
A.Chilingarian G. Hovsepyan, E. Mamidjanyan, Study of Extensive Air Showers and Primary Energy Spectra by MAKET-ANI Detector on Mountain Aragats, Astroparticle Physics, 28 , pp 58-71, 2007.
Cross Sections of Photonuclear Reactions with air
Cross Section of Photo Nuclear Reaction of Photons with Nitrogen(continuous line) and Carbon(dotted line) Nucleus
Cross Section of Photo Nuclear Reaction of Photons with Oxygen Nuclei
Distribution of Mean Multiplicities of ARNM During Thunderstorm Activity
Multiplicity, m 1 2 3 4 5 6Nucleon Energy (Gev) NM64 0.07 0.12 0.18 0.25 0.4 0.64
C.J. Hatton, The Neutron Monitor, in J., G. Wilson and S.A. Wouthuysen (eds.), Progress in Elementary Particle and Cosmic-ray Physics, vol. 10, chapter 1, North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1971
ConclusionsThe notion of the multiplicity, introduced several decades ago, despite its elegance did not become yet a basis of the physical analysis of any importance in the cosmic ray physics and space weather research. Here we introduce method of calculation of the mean multiplicity and demonstrate its relation to the high energy primary cosmic ray physics and to new observed high energy phenomena in the thunderstorm atmospheres. We demonstrate the “bursts” in the mean multiplicity time series measured by Aragats Neutron Monitor are connected with the incident Extensive Air Shower initiated by the primary particles with energies greater than 1 PeV and by the low energy neutron photo production by the gamma rays from the RREA process.