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Collective Hadronization and Air Showers: Can LHC Data Solve the Muon Puzzle ?

Tanguy Pierog
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Sebastian Baur
  • Fonction : Auteur
Hans P. Dembinski
  • Fonction : Auteur
Ralf Ulrich
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

The deficit of muons in the simulation of extensive air showers is a long standing problem and the origin of large uncertainties in the reconstruction of the mass of the high energy primary cosmic rays. Hadronic interaction models re-tuned after early LHC data have a more consistent description of the muon content among them but still disagree with data. Collective hadronization due to the formation of a quark gluon plasma (QGP) has already been studied as a possible reason for a larger production of muons under extreme conditions (rare, very central nuclear interactions), but without real success. Because of its different ratio of electromagnetic to hadronic energy, a QGP may have the properties to solve the muon puzzle in particular in the view of the most recent LHC data. It is demonstrated using a theoretical approach and tested in a realistic way by the modification of the EPOS model to produce a QGP also in not so extreme conditions with a possible large impact on air shower physics.

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hal-02966406 , version 1 (13-10-2020)

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Tanguy Pierog, Sebastian Baur, Hans P. Dembinski, Ralf Ulrich, Klaus Werner. Collective Hadronization and Air Showers: Can LHC Data Solve the Muon Puzzle ?. 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Jul 2019, Madison, United States. pp.387, ⟨10.22323/1.358.0387⟩. ⟨hal-02966406⟩
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