Speaker
Prof.
Huanyu Jia
(School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University)
Description
Studies on energy changes of cosmic ray electron in thunderstorms electric field are very important to understand the acceleration mechanism of secondary charged particles caused by electric field. In this paper, Monte Carlo simulations were performed by CORSIKA to study the energy of cosmic ray electron in two typical electric fields. One is upper than the threshold field strength resulting in a runaway breakdown process (such as the order of 1kV/cm), the other is lower than that (such as the order of 0.1 kV/cm). The electron energy spectra and equilibrium energies are obtained at different fields and different altitudes, especially above YBJ (4300 m a.s.l., Tibet, China). The decrease of the ground cosmic ray intensity during thunderstorms observed in ARGO-YBJ is discussed by using our simulation results.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 110 |
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| Collaboration | -- not specified -- |
Primary author
Dr
Daihui Huang
(School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University)
Co-authors
Prof.
Huanyu Jia
(School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University)
Mr
Xinjian Wang
(School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University)
Dr
Xunxiu Zhou
(School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University)
