Experimental Investigation of the Nature of the Knee in the Primary Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum with the GAMMA experiment

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new difference method applied to GAMMA experiment data to investigate the knee in the cosmic ray spectrum, suggesting a potential nearby source in the Southern hemisphere.

Contribution

It presents a novel analytical approach to study the cosmic ray spectrum's knee and provides evidence for a nearby cosmic ray source.

Findings

Evidence for a nearby cosmic ray source in the Southern hemisphere

Application of a new difference method to cosmic ray data

Preliminary results indicating the nature of the knee

Abstract

We present preliminary results obtained by a novel difference method for the study of the nature of the knee in the energy spectrum of the primary cosmic radiation. We have applied this method to data from the GAMMA experiment in Armenia. The analysis provides evidence for the possible existence of a nearby source of primary cosmic rays in the Southern hemisphere.