FIZIKA B 5 (1996) 4, 263-268

ESTIMATION OF PATH-LENGTH DISTRIBUTION OF Fe PRIMARIES AT SOURCE USING STEADY-STATE LEAKY-BOX MODEL

RENE MAJUMDAR and DEBA P. BHATTACHARYYA
Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta-700032, India

Received 7 May 1996

Using the steady-state leaky-box model for cosmic ray propagation in interstellar matter, along with the Alice Springs balloon flight data for sub Fe-Fe group, the escape length has been estimated and found to be 1.48 g/cm². The result is in fair agreement with the global fit to the escape length distribution surveyed by Ormes and Frier at the energy 100 GeV/n, which is comparable with our estimated source energy 86 GeV/n based on observed average energy and other propagational parameters.

UDC 539.166
PACS 96.40.-z

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