Derivation of Absolute Depth‐Intensity Spectrum under Standard Rock from the Recently Estimated Primary Cosmic Ray Spectrum

Using the recently derived primary cosmic ray nucleon spectrum from JACEE and GSFC balloon flight data and Fermilab results for pp → π ± + X anything inclusive reaction data in the light of Feynman scaling the depth‐intensity spectrum under standard rock has been estimated. A precisely constructed range‐energy relation has been applied in this analysis. The derived spectrum when corrected for range fluctuation agrees approximately with the experimental data under standard rocks measured by M IYAZAKI , B ARTON , C ASTAGNOLI et al., M EYER et al., B ERGAMASCO et al., S HELDON et al. and B ASCHIERA et al.