pith. sign in

arxiv: astro-ph/0507543 · v2 · submitted 2005-07-22 · 🌌 astro-ph

Comparison between methods for the determination of the primary cosmic ray mass composition from the longitudinal profile of atmospheric cascades

M.Ambrosio , C.Aramo , C.Donalek , D.D'Urso , A.D.Erlykin , F.Guarino , A.Insolia , G.Longo This is my paper
classification 🌌 astro-ph
keywords analysislongitudinalmethodsatmosphericcascadescompositioncosmicdetermination
0
0 comments X p. Extension
read the original abstract

The determination of the primary cosmic ray mass composition from the longitudinal development of atmospheric cascades is still a debated issue. In this work we discuss several data analysis methods and show that if the entire information contained in the longitudinal profile is exploited, reliable results may be obtained. Among the proposed methods FCC ('Fit of the Cascade Curve'), MTA ('Multiparametric Topological Analysis') and NNA ('Neural Net Analysis') with conjugate gradient optimization algorithm give the best accuracy.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Prospects for Deep-Learning-Based Mass Reconstruction of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays using Simulated Air-Shower Profiles

    astro-ph.HE 2025-08 conditional novelty 7.0

    A CNN predicts ln A from longitudinal shower profiles with bias under 0.4, resolution 1-1.5, and proton-iron merit factor 2.19, outperforming simpler ML models on shape parameters and remaining robust to hadronic mode...