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  title info:
    title: Cosmic rays at Earth
    sub title: researcher's reference manual and data book
  name:
    name part: Grieder, P. K. F.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd.
    date issued: 2001
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 1093 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In 1912 Victor Franz Hess made the revolutionary discovery that ionizing radiation is incident upon the Earth from outer space. He showed with ground-based and balloon-borne detectors that the intensity of the radiation did not change significantly between day and night. Consequently, the sun could not be regarded as the sources of this radiation and the question of its origin remained unanswered. Today, almost one hundred years later the question of the origin of the cosmic radiation still remains a mystery. Hess' discovery has given an enormous impetus to large areas of science, in particular to physics, and has played a major role in the formation of our current understanding of universal evolution. For example, the development of new fields of research such as elementary particle physics, modern astrophysics and cosmology are direct consequences of this discovery. Over the years the field of cosmic ray research has evolved in various directions: Firstly, the field of particle physics that was initiated by the discovery of many so-called elementary particles in the cosmic radiation. There is a strong trend from the accelerator physics community to reenter the field of cosmic ray physics, now under the name of astroparticle physics. Secondly, an important branch of cosmic ray physics that has rapidly evolved in conjunction with space exploration concerns the low energy portion of the cosmic ray spectrum. Thirdly, the branch of research that is concerned with the origin, acceleration and propagation of the cosmic radiation represents a great challenge for astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology. Presently very popular fields of research have rapidly evolved, such as high-energy gamma ray and neutrino astronomy. In addition, high-energy neutrino astronomy may soon initiate as a likely spin-off neutrino tomography of the Earth and thus open a unique new branch of geophysical research of the interior of the Earth. Finally, of considerable interest are the biological and…
  table of contents: Front Cover; Cosmic Rays at Earth: Research's Reference Manual and Data Book; Copyright Page; Preface; Comments for Reader; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1. Cosmic Ray Properties, Relations and Definitions; Chapter 2. Cosmic Rays in the Atmosphere; Chapter 3. Cosmic Raysat Sea Level; Chapter 4. Cosmic Rays Underground, Underwater and Under Ice; Chapter 5. Primary Cosmic Radiation; Chapter 6. Heliospheric Phenomena; Chapter 7. Miscellaneous Topics; Appendix A. Miscellaneous Data: Tables; Appendix B. Miscellaneous Data: Figures; Appendix C. Cosmic Ray Experiments of Past and Present.
  note: Peter K.F. Grieder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cosmic rays
  subject:
    topic: Radioactivity
  subject:
    topic: Cosmic Radiation
  subject:
    topic: Radioactivity
  subject:
    topic: Rayonnement cosmique
  subject:
    topic: Radioactivité
  subject:
    topic: radioactivity
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Nuclear
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Atomic & Molecular
  subject:
    topic: Cosmic rays
  classification: QC485 .G715 2001eb
  classification: 539.7/223
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    title info:
      title: Cosmic rays at Earth
    name:
      name part: Grieder, P.K.F.
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 2001023791
    identifier: (OCoLC)46473892
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    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 070802
    record change date: 20260326150423.1
    record identifier: in00005731640
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng