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The penetrating power of cosmic-ray shower particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. Jánossy
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The absorption curve for cosmic-ray shower particles has been observed in lead and iron with a counter arrangement. Since the observed curves are in good agreement with the absorption curve of cosmic ray electrons calculated by Heitler, it has been concluded that nearly all the showers are of the cascade type.

Observations of Schmeisser and Bothe which have previously been interpreted as giving experimental evidence for the occurrence of penetrating particles in showers are not in contradiction with the observations given here, so that they also must be interpreted in terms of energetic electron cascades.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1938 , pp. 614 - 619
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1938

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