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VOLUME 85 | ISSUE 11 | PAGE 663 No-thinning simulations of extensive air showers and small scale fluctuations at the ground level V. A. Kuzmin+, G. I. Rubtsov+* +Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, 117312 Moscow, Russia *Department of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia PACS: 96.40.-z, 98.70.Sa, Abstract The particle density in extensive air showers fluctuates at the ground level. These fluctuations, at the scale of the scintillator detector size (several meters), lead to the diversity of the individual detector responses. Therefore, small scale fluctuations contribute to the error in the estimation of the primary energy by a ground array. This contribution is shown to be non-Gaussian. The impact on the primary energy spectrum measured by a ground array is estimated. It is argued that super-GZK events observed by AGASA experiment do not result from the energy overestimation, due to small scale fluctuations, of lower energy events. Download PS file (GZipped, 118.9K)  |  Download PDF file (251.5K) Список работ, цитирующих данную статью, см. здесь. List of articles citing this article can be found here.