• DocumentCode
    1926941
  • Title

    Observation of muon bremsstrahlung process light emission

  • Author

    Kotcherlakota, L.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Gen. Phys. Lab., Shivaji Univ., Kolhapur, India
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    25-31 Oct 1992
  • Abstract
    Summary form only. Two or three successive flashes of muon bremsstrahlung processes per minute have been detected using a detector sensitive to such flashes at a city situated at about 900 m above sea level. This observation, made on 16 Feb. 1992, is regarded as the first record near the terrestrial equatorial magnetic region of the effect of solar cosmic rays with protons. The charged pions that traversed, obviously time dilated, and eventually decayed are interpreted to be the source of the charged muons. The latter, in Coulombic interaction with the heavy nuclei of the iron-alloy filter, produced the product elements that, in turn, produced the observed light flashes
  • Keywords
    bremsstrahlung; cosmic ray composition; light emission; muon bremsstrahlung; pions; protons; solar cosmic rays; terrestrial equatorial magnetic region; Cosmic rays; Detectors; Mesons; Physics; Sea level;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0884-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301195
  • Filename
    301195