Column: Here I Stand

WN editor Geoffrey Cannon writes: My hero in this issue is John Maynard Keynes, who a century ago gave clues to just how ominous world prospects are now.Then I ruminate on the overuse and abuse of the word 'we', as in 'Yes, we can', or 'We need to tackle the challenge of epidemic obesity'.Who are 'we'? Then some shoc

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Model-stable universality of the air shower electromagnetic component: An approach to solving the mass composition problem

On the basis of the scaling approach and CORSIKA simulations data the radial scale factor of the lateral distribution Sump Hose of electrons in extensive air showers is confirmed as a potentially effective primary mass estimator, and its sensitivity to hadronic interaction model is investigated.It is shown that improved composition results both on

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