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Direct electron-pair production by high energy heavy charged particles
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hayashi, T. Gregory, J. C. Dong, B. L. Takahashi, Y. |
| Copyright Year | 1989 |
| Description | Direct electron pain production via virtual photons by moving charged particles is a unique electro-magnetic process having a substantial dependence on energy. Most electro-magnetic processes, including transition radiation, cease to be sensitive to the incident energy above 10 TeV/AMU. Thus, it is expected, that upon establishment of cross section and detection efficiency of this process, it may provide a new energy measuring technique above 10 TeV/AMU. Three accelerator exposures of emulsion chambers designed for measurements of direct electron-pains were performed. The objectives of the investigation were to provide the fundamental cross-section data in emulsion stacks to find the best-fit theoretical model, and to provide a calibration of measurements of direct electron-pairs in emulsion chamber configurations. This paper reports the design of the emulsion chambers, accelerator experiments, microscope measurements, and related considerations for future improvements of the measurements, and for possible applications to high energy cosmic ray experiments. Also discussed are the results from scanning 56m of emulsion tracks at 1200x magnification so that scanning efficiency is optimized. Measurements of the delta-ray range spectrum were also performed for much shorter track lengths, but with sufficiently large statistics in the number of measured delta-rays. |
| File Size | 585329 |
| Page Count | 20 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19890014771 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1mh2hm96 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1989-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Atomic And Molecular Physics Calibrating Heavy Nuclei Particle Energy Pair Production Radiation Counters High Energy Interactions Electron Emission Nuclear Emulsions Cosmic Rays Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |