Theoretical analysis of extensive air showers V. General analysis of muons above 1000 GeV

For Pt IV see abstr. A. 3283 of 1970. Previous calculations by the present group (Adcock et al. in 1969) have been extended to yield predictions of the frequencies of multiple muons in the comprehensive experiment of Cannon and Stenerson (see ibid., vol 4, 266, 1971). It is shown how comparison with experiment can give information about the magnitude of the mean transverse momentum (pt) of the parent pions, the form of the multiplicity law and the magnitude of the primary cosmic ray intensity, all in the region of 2*105 GeV primary energy. Comparison is also made with the previous experiments and the areas of agreement and disagreement are explored.