ENERGY SPECTRUM OF NUCLEAR-ACTIVE PARTICLES IN EXTENSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SHOWERS

Journal Article · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1963 · Zh. Eksperim. i Teor. Fiz.

OSTI ID:4697332

Babayan, Kh P; Boyadzhyan, N G; Grigorov, N L; Mamidzhanyan, E A; Tretyakova, Ch A; Shestoperov, V Ya

Ionization bursts produced by nuclear-active particles in extensive air showers were studied with an arrangement of 192 ionization chambers with a total area of 10 m/sup 2/. Due to simultaneous incidence of several nuclear --active particles on the large area arrangement, the ionization burst spectrum differs from the spectrum of nuclear --active particles. The power exponent of the integral spectrum of bursts produced over an area of 10 m/sup 2/ in showers with more than 10/sup 5/ particles is gamma approximates 1.0 (for bursts containing more than 500 relativistic particles) whereas the spectrum exponent for bursts produced by single particles in the same showers is gamma = 1.6 plus or minus 0.1. (auth)

• Research Organization: Moscow State Univ.; Inst. of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Armenian SSR
• NSA Number: NSA-17-041721
• OSTI ID: 4697332
• Journal Information: Zh. Eksperim. i Teor. Fiz., Journal Name: Zh. Eksperim. i Teor. Fiz. Vol. Vol: 45
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: Russian

Related Subjects

ATMOSPHERE
CONFIGURATION
COSMIC RADIATION
DISTRIBUTION
ENERGY
EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS
IONIZATION
IONIZATION CHAMBERS
LATTICES
MEASURED VALUES
NUCLEONS
PHYSICS
PULSES
SCATTERING