INVESTIGATION OF AN ELECTRON-PHOTON CASCADE OF MORE THAN 10$sup 13$ EV
Journal Article
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· Nuovo Cimento (Italy) Divided into Nuovo Cimento A and Nuovo Cimento B
OSTI ID:4089974
A very dense cascade shower was fouud in a 200-sheet stack of 60 x 30-cm nuclear emulsions exposed in Texas above 110,000 ft and is ascribed to a single gamma ray or two gamma rays from the same pi /sup 0/ meson. This cascade, very near to the shower axis and before the cascade maximum, is treated as a pure electron-photon cascade and is analyzed by target diagrams made at varying distances from the shower origin. The distribution of the high-energy electrons in the cascade agrees with the predictions of cascade theory, the primary energy being 2.3 x 1O/sup 13/ ev for the best fit. (D.L.C.)
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Chicago
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-005570
- OSTI ID:
- 4089974
- Journal Information:
- Nuovo Cimento (Italy) Divided into Nuovo Cimento A and Nuovo Cimento B, Journal Name: Nuovo Cimento (Italy) Divided into Nuovo Cimento A and Nuovo Cimento B Vol. Vol: (10) 17; ISSN NUCIA
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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