Extensive air showers' arrival direction distribution by the TSU array under GELATICA experiment

TL;DR

This study analyzes the distribution of arrival directions of extensive air showers using data from the TSU array within the GELATICA experiment, confirming the exponential model of flux dependence on air absorption.

Contribution

It provides new insights into the angular distribution of EAS and emphasizes the importance of data trimming boundaries in absorption path estimation.

Findings

The exponential model fits the arrival direction distribution well.

The absorption path estimation depends on data trimming boundaries.

Strict verification of data boundaries is necessary.

Abstract

The distribution of the arrival zenith angle of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) with a wide range of a total number of charged particles is studied using the experimental data obtained using the EAS 4-detector array 'TSU' in Tbilisi. The station is a part of the GELATICA net in Georgia (GEorgian Large-area Angle and TIme Coincidence Array), which is devoted to the study of possible correlations in the arrival times and directions of separate EAS events over large distances. It is shown that the distribution function with the conventional exponential dependence of showers' flux on absorbing air thickness provides a good approximation for the arrival direction distribution. The dependence of the EAS absorption path estimation on the angular trimming boundary of data set is studied; the necessity of strict verification of the used value of data trimming boundary is stated.