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 19th European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Florence : Italie
 EAS array on board of the A380 airliner
 (2005)
 We propose an airborne experiment to study cosmic rays at the knee energy taking opportunity of 10.000 hours of Airbus A380 test flights at an altitude of 10 km. The available area of nearly 500 m2 would allow for deploying EAS array with hadron detectors to measure CR iron spectra up to $\sim$ 10$^7$ GeV and high energy protons surviving without interaction. At an altitude of 10 km the showers initiated by heavy nuclei are more developed and stable than proton iniated showers. Registration of both E-M and hadron components will help to discriminate between heavy and primaries.
 Subject(s) : Physics/Astrophysics/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics
 Keyword(s) : cosmic rays – extensive air showers
 in2p3-00024821, version 1 http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00024821 oai:hal.in2p3.fr:in2p3-00024821 From: Simone Lantz <> Submitted on: Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:13:29 Updated on: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:26:29