Measurement of Light Emission from Remote Cosmic Ray Air Showers

Bergeson, H.E.; Cassiday, G.L.; Chiu, T.-W.; Cooper, D.A.; Elbert, J.W.; Loh, E.C.; Steck, D.; West, W.J.; Linsley, John; Mason, G.W.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.847

Measurement of Light Emission from Remote Cosmic Ray Air Showers

Jul, 1977

12 pages

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Phys.Rev.Lett. 39 (1977) 847-849

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.847

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UUCR-164

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Abstract: (APS)

Extensive air-shower trajectories and sizes (numbers of charged particles) have been measured using an optical detection system at Volcano Ranch Station near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Light produced by atmospheric scintillation and Cherenkov emission by shower particles was measured at distances of 0.7 to ∼ 10 km. The shower sizes determined by the optical measurements are in satisfactory agreement (an average of 10% higher) with measurements by the ground-level scintillation-counter array at Volcano Ranch.

COSMIC RADIATION
SHOWERS: AIR
SHOWERS: EXTENSIVE
MULTIPLICITY: CHARGED PARTICLE
RADIATION: CHERENKOV
ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
SCINTILLATION COUNTER: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS: SCINTILLATION COUNTER

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(
- Cornell U., LNS
)
,
J.C. Earnshaw
(
- Cornell U., LNS
)
,
E. Tielsch-Cassel
(
- Cornell U., LNS
)
,
J.C. Ahlstrom
(
- Cornell U., LNS
)
,
K. Greisen
(
- Cornell U., LNS
)

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