Artículo
Abstract:
An experiment performed with a balloon-borne large plastic scintillator is described. It was launched from Reconquista, province of Santa Fe, on 24 February, 1978. The energy loss spectra of both atmospheric gamma radiation (for Eγ> 4.15 MeV) and the charged component of the secondary cosmic radiation, were alternately measured at different altitudes, during the ascent of the balloon and at ceiling altitude. The atmospheric gamma radiation spectrum is analyzed in an earlier paper (Azcárate et al., 1992). The shape of the energy loss spectrum due to charged radiation is justified, in its more characteristic features, when the path length distribution in the detector of minimum ionization relativistic particles is taken into account. It is concluded that, at the ceiling altitude, the observed peak in the spectrum is due mainly to relativistic μ-mesons incident from the horizontal direction. The growth curve for the counting rate below the peak and the horizontal intensity of relativistic μ-mesons are also obtained. © 1993 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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| Documento: | Artículo |
| Título: | A measurement of the high energy secondary charged cosmic radiation |
| Autor: | Mugherli, V.J.; Azcárate, I.N.; Ghielmetti, H.S. |
| Filiación: | Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía Villa Elisa, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Año: | 1993 |
| Volumen: | 208 |
| Número: | 1 |
| Página de inicio: | 125 |
| Página de fin: | 133 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00658139 |
| Título revista: | Astrophysics and Space Science |
| Título revista abreviado: | Astrophys Space Sci |
| ISSN: | 0004640X |
| Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0004640X_v208_n1_p125_Mugherli |
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Mugherli, V.J., Azcárate, I.N. & Ghielmetti, H.S. (1993) . A measurement of the high energy secondary charged cosmic radiation. Astrophysics and Space Science, 208(1), 125-133.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00658139
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Mugherli, V.J., Azcárate, I.N., Ghielmetti, H.S. "A measurement of the high energy secondary charged cosmic radiation" . Astrophysics and Space Science 208, no. 1 (1993) : 125-133.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00658139
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Mugherli, V.J., Azcárate, I.N., Ghielmetti, H.S. "A measurement of the high energy secondary charged cosmic radiation" . Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 208, no. 1, 1993, pp. 125-133.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00658139
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Mugherli, V.J., Azcárate, I.N., Ghielmetti, H.S. A measurement of the high energy secondary charged cosmic radiation. Astrophys Space Sci. 1993;208(1):125-133.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00658139
