After estimating the total energy and thence the energy per particle, it looks like the average particle would have UHECR-like energy, so they would each generate an extensive air shower, “spreading” the energy over larger volumes than it otherwise would. (But when you have so many showers superimposed to each other, I’m not sure the total effect would be much different from each particle interacting locally.)
Prob’ly something like this.
Ahh, good point. That seems about right.
After estimating the total energy and thence the energy per particle, it looks like the average particle would have UHECR-like energy, so they would each generate an extensive air shower, “spreading” the energy over larger volumes than it otherwise would. (But when you have so many showers superimposed to each other, I’m not sure the total effect would be much different from each particle interacting locally.)