FURTHER MEASUREMENTS ON EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS

Journal Article · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1958 · Nuovo Cimento (Italy) Divided into Nuovo Cimento A and Nuovo Cimento B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02962589· OSTI ID:4250293

Greisen, K

A lange experiment on extensive air showers was recently set up at Cornell University, similar to that at M. 1. T., which employs 15 plastic scintillators. Five of the detectors are near the center of the array at spacings of 3 to 80 m. Five others are spaced about the center on a circle of 150- m radius. and the remaining five are on a circle of 500-m riulius. The main component of the apparatus is a magnetic meson spectrometer located near the central counters. When a lange shower occurs, a photograph is taken of a bank of 15 oscillograph tubes upon which all the scintillator pulses are registered. The times and heights of the pulses determine the direction and location of the shower axis and the size of the shower. If a meson has been recorded simultaneously, this fact and the approximate meson energy are registered on the same film by means of neon bulbs. With the oscilloscope method about 200 showers per day are exanfined. (A.C.)

• Research Organization: Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• NSA Number: NSA-13-008033
• OSTI ID: 4250293
• 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) 8, Suppl. No. 2; ISSN NUCIA
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

Related Subjects

AIR
COINCIDENCE METHODS
CONFIGURATION
COSMIC RADIATION
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MEASURED VALUES
MESONS
OSCILLOGRAPHS
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
POLYMERS
PULSES
RECORDING SYSTEMS
SCATTERING
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SHOWERS
SPECTROMETERS