29 July 2015 to 6 August 2015
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Effects of the near earth thunderstorms electric field on intensity of the ground cosmic ray electron at YBJ

1 Aug 2015, 15:30
1h
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Poster contribution CR-EX Poster 2 CR

Speaker

Dr Xunxiu Zhou (School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China)

Description

It has been found that most of the near earth thunderstorms electric field strength at YBJ (4300 m a.s.l., Tibet, China) is within the range of 1000V/cm from ARGO-YBJ data. In this work, Monte Carlo simulations were performed by CORSIKA to study the intensity change of the ground cosmic rays in near earth thunderstorms electric fields. We found that the number of electrons in secondary particles at YBJ was changed with the strength and polarity of the electric field. In the negative field, the number increases with the strength of the fields. Nevertheless, it increases, or does not change obliviously or even declines with different energies of primary particles in the different positive fields. Our results are consistent with the observations obtained from ARGO-YBJ during thunderstorms. What is more, these preliminary results provide important information in understanding the acceleration mechanism of secondary charged particles caused by electric field.
Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" 102
Collaboration -- not specified --

Primary author

Mr Xinjian Wang (School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China)

Co-authors

Dr Daihui Huang (School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University) Prof. Huanyu Jia (School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University) Dr Xunxiu Zhou (School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China)

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