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Alignment in Gamma-Hadron Families of Cosmic Rays
Full text linkAlignment of main fluxes of energy in a target plane is found in families of
cosmic ray particles detected in deep lead X-ray chambers. The fraction of
events with alignment is unexpectedly large for families with high energy and
large number of hadrons. This can be considered as evidence for the existence
of coplanar scattering of secondary particles in interaction of particles with
superhigh energy, eV. Data analysis suggests that production of
most aligned groups occurs low above the chamber and is characterized by a
coplanar scattering and quasiscaling spectrum of secondaries in the
fragmentation region. The most elaborated hypothesis for explanation of
alignment is related to the quark-gluon string rupture. However, the problem of
theoretical interpretation of our results still remains open.Comment: 15 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures (not included), Stanford University
preprint SU-ITP-94-2
