EAS Longitudinal Development and the Knee

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It is shown that Extensive Air Shower (EAS) longitudinal development has a critical point where an equilibrium between the main hadronic component and the secondary electromagnetic one exhibits a brake. This results in a change of slope in quasi-power law function $N_{e}(Eo)$. The latter leads to a knee in the EAS size spectrum at primary energy of about 100 TeV/nucleon. Many ``strange'' experimental results can be successfully explained in the frames of current approach.
Talk given at 30th ICRC, Merida, Mexico (2007) 5 pages, 3 figures

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/134457

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https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2231
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