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arxiv: hep-ph/9809463 · v1 · submitted 1998-09-21 · ✦ hep-ph · cond-mat· nucl-th

Do we observe L\'evy flights in cosmic rays?

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We argue that the so called long flying component (LFC) observed in some cosmic ray experiments are yet another manifestation of L\'evy distributions (with index $q=1.3$), this time of the distribution observation probability of the depths of starting points of cascades. It means that LFC is governed by the so called long-tail L\'evy-like anomalous superdiffusion, a phenomenon frequently encountered in Nature. Its connection with the so called Tsallis's statistics is also briefly discussed.

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