By extensive Monte Carlo simulations of Extensive Air Showers (EAS), using the EAS simulation code CORSIKA, arrival time distributions of the EAS muon have been generated for iron, oxygen and proton induced air showers using different hadronic interaction models as Monte Carlo generators. The muon time profiles up to distances of 310 m from the core position have been obtained for different primaries. Applying non-parametric statistical inference methods it is shown that a reliable determination of the shower age, correlated with the time parameters would lead to a relatively good discrimination of showers of different primary mass.

PACS numbers: 96.40.Pq