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Extensive air showers (he-4)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Author | Clay, R. W. |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Description | Ultra high energy (UHE) gamma ray astronomy is an exciting area which has added a new sense of purpose to ground based array work. There is much to be done before UHE gamma ray showers can be understood properly and it is important to remain conservative with claims while the properties of such showers are still not clear. The muon content is only one of the properties that needs to be clarified. It remains to be seen how well progress occurs on the second order problem of detailed interaction parameters once the gross features are clarified. The shower disk thickness has become an area of intense study with interest in Linsley's technique for measuremnts of giant showers and in the study of structure near the core for improving fast timing and studying delayed subshowers. Perhaps the most significant area of promise for the future is individual shower develpments with Cerenkov and, particularly, air fluorescence techniques. The importance and potential of having relatively complete information on a complete set of individual showers can hardly be overestimated. A complete understanding of the observation process is needed to determine whether or not the recorded data set is complete at a given energy, apparent core distance, and zenith angle. |
| File Size | 1391545 |
| Page Count | 26 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19860022028 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t19k9746q |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1986-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Space Radiation Hadrons Gamma Rays Radio Emission Cosmic Ray Showers Energy Spectra Signal To Noise Ratios Cerenkov Radiation Energy Distribution Particle Density Concentration Data Bases Gamma Ray Astronomy Muons Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
