On the charge and energy spectrum of heavy primaries
Il Nuovo Cimento(2009)
摘要
Summary The relative abundance and energy spectrum of heavy primaries in the cosmic radiation were derived using 529 tracks found
in two stacks flown at high altitude at a mean geomagnetic latitude of 46° North. The amount of atmosphere and of packing
material above the scanned sections of both stacks was 17 g/cm2. A good resolution was obtained in the range 3 ≤ Z ≤ 10, while in the range Z > 10 the uncertainty was ▵Z = ± 1. In order to check the resolution between boron and carbon, gap-length measurements were made on 65 boron and carbon
tracks. The results of the two methods are in good agreement. All tracks were traced through the stack and a total of 331
nuclear interactions found, in order to derive the interaction mean free path and the fragmentation probabilities. The results
on the relative abundance of the three charge groups (light 3≤Z≤5 (L), medium 6≤Z≤9 (M), heavyZ ≥ 10 (H)) on a total of 242 tracks whose angle of incidence to the vertical was less than 30° are the following:
Flight altitude
Top of the atmosphere
N
1/N
M
0.46 ± 0.07
0.30 ± 0.09
N
H
N
M
0.40 ± 0.04
0.51 ± 0.11
To obtain the energy spectrum three types of measurements on 275 tracks were made: a)relative track to track scattering on
the α-particles ejected in the interactions. b)mean opening angle of fragmentation products. c) multiple scattering on a few
very flat primary tracks. The integral spectrum in the range 1.5 GeV÷100 GeV agrees fairly well with a power law of the type:N(E) =C/m
0
c
2+E)
n
, withn = 1.54
−0.13
+0.16
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关键词
power law,mean free path,high altitude,spectrum,relative abundance
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