Cosmic Rays: The Commonwealth and International Library: Selected Readings in Physics

by A. M. Hillas, Robert Robinson (Editor), Dean Athelstan Spilhaus (Editor), D. Ter Haar (Editor)

Overview

Cosmic Rays is a two-part book that first elucidates the discovery, nature, and particles produced by cosmic rays. This part also looks into the primary cosmic radiation; radio waves from the galaxy; extensive air showers; origin of cosmic rays; and other cosmic radiations. Part 2 consists of reprinted papers involving cosmic rays. Papers 1 to 10 treat the nature of the radiation, arranged chronologically; in Papers 11 to 16 the scene moves away from the Earth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483151922
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/22/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	5 MB

Table of Contents

Preface

PART 1

Chapter I: Discovery

Chapter II: The Nature of the Radiation

Chapter III: Particles Produced by the Cosmic Rays

Chapter IV: The Primary Cosmic Radiation

Chapter V: Radio Waves from the Galaxy

Chapter VI: Extensive Air Showers

Chapter VII: The Origin of Cosmic Rays

Chapter VIII: Local Peculiarities

Chapter IX: Other Cosmic Radiations

References

PART 2

Chapter 1: Observations of the Penetrating Radiation on Seven Balloon Flights

Chapter 2: The Nature of the High-altitude Radiation

Chapter 3: The Earth-magnetic Effect and the Corpuscular Nature of (Cosmic) Ultra-radiation. IV

Chapter 4: The Positive Electron

Chapter 5: On Multiplicative Showers

Chapter 6: Note on the Nature of Cosmic-ray Particles

Chapter 7: Extensive Cosmic-ray Showers

Chapter 8: The Nature of the Primary Cosmic Radiation and the Origin of the Mesotron

Chapter 9: Observations on the Tracks of Slow Mesons in Photographic Emulsions

Chapter 10: Evidence for Multiple Meson and γ-ray Production in Cosmic-ray Stars

Chapter 11: A Mechanism of Acquirement of Cosmic-ray Energies by Electrons

Chapter 12: On the Origin of the Cosmic Radiation

Chapter 13: Cosmic Radiation and Radio Stars

Chapter 14: Abundance of Lithium, Beryllium, Boron and Other Light Nuclei in the Primary Cosmic Radiation and the Problem of Cosmic-ray Origin

Chapter 15: The Nature of Cosmic Radio Emission and the Origin of Cosmic Rays

Chapter 16: Cosmic-ray Modulation by Solar Wind

Index