Sea level measurements of properties of cosmic ray showers with sizes ranging from 200,000 to 10 million particles
Abstract
An analysis has been made of air shower data obtained over a 13-month period at Buckland Park, Australia. Showers with sizes of about one million particles were found to have an attenuation length of 185 + or - 5 g/sq cm, absorption lengths of about 100 g/sq cm, and a shower size spectrum which progressively steepens between sizes of about 500,000 and 10 million particles.
- Publication:
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Australian Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1071/PH820059
- Bibcode:
- 1982AuJPh..35...59C
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Ray Showers;
- Energetic Particles;
- Particle Size Distribution;
- Sea Level;
- Absorption Spectra;
- Atmospheric Attenuation;
- Energy Spectra;
- Primary Cosmic Rays;
- Scintillation Counters;
- Space Radiation