A search for slow, lightly ionizing particles in cosmic rays

A surface search was made using a small-area four-layer scintillator detector. Slow lightly ionizing particles created in cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere which arrived within 13 ms of the shower front were searched for. In a live time of 2.55 x 10⁵ s 394,608 showers of two or more muons an...

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Main Author: Solie, Daniel J.
Other Authors: Physics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39451
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09202005-091035/