CHERENKOV LIGHT LATERAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ESTIMATION AS A FUNCTION OF ZENITH ANGLE
MARWAH M. ABDULSTTAR
Department of Physics, College of Science, Al-Mustansiriyah University, 10052 Baghdad, Iraq.
A. A. AL-RUBAIEE *
Department of Physics, College of Science, Al-Mustansiriyah University, 10052 Baghdad, Iraq.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The simulation of Cherenkov light lateral distribution function (CLLDF) in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) was performed by using the Monte Carlo CORSIKA code for configurations of Tunka-133 EAS Cherenkov array. This simulation was carried out for different primary particles (e+, e-, p, O, Ar and Fe) around the knee region with the energy 3.1015 eV at different zenith angles. By depending on the Breit-Wigner function a parameterization of CLLDF was reconstructed on the basis of this simulation as a function of the zenith angle. The parameterized CLLDF was verified for four fixed zenith angles in comparison with the simulation that performed using CORSIKA code for each primary particle.
Keywords: Cherenkov light, lateral distribution function, extensive air showers