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The possible feature of the energy spectrum of the primary cosmic rays at ultra-high energies

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 نشر من قبل Leonid Dedenko
 تاريخ النشر 2009
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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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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