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On bursts produced by muons and electrons

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The problem of the size fluctuation of bursts produced by muons is considered in the light of the method adopted by us for the evaluation of the mean square deviation of the number of electrons produced in an electron-photon cascade. An explicit simple analytical expression for the mean square deviation of the number of electrons is derived. It is also shown how other problems of experimental interest can be dealt with by the use of multipoint density functions. In particular the sequent correlation functions developed in the earlier paper are used for the bursts produced by electrons.

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Si studia il problema della fluttuazione delle dimensioni dei bursts prodotti dai muoni, alla luce del metodo da noi adottato per valutare la divergenza quadratica media del numero di elettroni prodotti in una cascata elettrone-fotone. Si deduce una semplice espressione analitica esplicita per la divergenza quadratica media del numero di elettroni. Si mostra anche come si possono trattare altri problemi di interesse sperimentale con l’uso delle funzioni di densità a molti punti. In particolare si usano le funzioni di correlazioni consecutive, sviluppate nell’articolo precedente, per i burst prodotti da elettroni.

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Srinivasan, S.K., Iyer, K.S.S. On bursts produced by muons and electrons. Nuovo Cim 34, 67–76 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02725869

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