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The energy spectrum of primary cosmic rays at energies between at 2x10$^{13}$ - 3x10$^{17}$ eV is presented according to data from the Tien Shan array on the basis of the detection of the number of electrons in extensive air showers. In the energy range 5x10$^{15}$ - 3x10$^{17}$ eV, the spectrum was obtained by means of the HADRON array and was extended to the region of lower energies from 2x10$^{13}$ eV on the basis of the results of an individual experiment. The changes in the slope of the spectrum in the energy range of 10$^{16}$ - 3x10$^{17}$ eV and a feature of this spectrum at about 1017 eV are analyzed in detail and are described. The spectrum in question is compared with the results obtained at some other arrays.
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The primary cosmic ray sources are searched by means of CHRONOTRON - KLARA separate array of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute Tien Shan station. It was done on the base of 35 millions observed PCR extensive air showers from 5x10**13 to 5x10**14 eV energies. The data analysis was carried on the method of the direct selection of local areas in equatorial coordinates where the deviation of event numbers exceeded the definite value from normal Gaussian standard. These directions are compared with other arrays observed results and with coordinates of astrophysical sources.
The events of multiple neutron production under 2000g/cm$^2$ thick rock absorber were studied at the Tien~Shan mountain cosmic ray station, at the altitude of 3340m above the sea level. From comparison of the experimental and Geant4 simulated neutron multiplicity spectra it follows that the great bulk of these events can be explained by interaction of cosmic ray muons with internal material of the neutron detector. In synchronous operation of the underground neutron monitor with the Tien~Shan shower detector system it was found that the characteristics of the muonic component of extensive air showers which is seemingly responsible for generation of the neutron events underground do change noticeably within the energy range of the knee of primary cosmic ray spectrum. Some peculiar shower events were detected when the neutron signal reveals itself only $sim$(100--1000),$mu$s after the passage of the shower particles front which probably means an existence of corresponding delay of the muon flux in such events.
There are some discrepancies in the results on energy spectrum from Yakutsk, AGASA, and HiRes experiments. In this work differential energy spectrum of primary cosmic rays based on the Yakutsk EAS Array data is presented. For the largest events values of $S_{600}$ and axes coordinates have been obtained using revised lateral distribution function. Simulation of converters response at large distances showed no considerable underestimation of particle density. Complex shape of spectrum in region of $E > 10^{17}$ eV is confirmed. After adjustment of parameters and additional exposition at the Yakutsk array there are three events with energy $E > 10^{20}$ eV.
We put together the experimental results on muon component of extensive air showers (EAS) which were gained with various techniques at the detector complex of the Tien Shan mountain station. According to this comparison, the problem of the EAS muon content in the range of primary cosmic ray energies (1-100)PeV seems to be more complicated than it was usually supposed. Generally, from the models of nuclear interaction it follows that the EAS which have produced gamma-hadron families in the Tien Shan X-ray emulsion chamber did preferably originate from interaction of the light cosmic ray nuclei, such that their muon abundance must be ~1.5 times below an average calculated over all showers. In contrary, the experimental muon counts in the EAS with families demonstrate a (1.5-2)-fold excess above the average, and this difference starts to be observable in the showers with the energy above the 3PeV knee of the primary cosmic ray spectrum. Later on, the rise of muon production in EAS after the knee was confirmed at Tien Shan by another experiment on detection of the neutrons stemmed from interaction of cosmic ray muons. Thus, the results obtained by the two completely different methods do mutually agree with each other but contradict to the common models of hadron interaction.
The energies of the most energetic extensive air showers observed at the Yakutsk array have been estimated with help of the all detectors readings instead of using of the standard procedure with a parameter s(600). The energy of the most energetic extensive air shower observed at the Yakutsk array happened to be 200, 200, 180 and 165 EeV with the values of the Xi**2 function per one degree of freedom 0.9, 1., 0.9 and 1.1 for the primary protons and helium, oxygen and iron nuclei accordingly.
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