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Celestial Messengers: Cosmic Rays: The Story of a Scientific Adventure

Celestial Messengers: Cosmic Rays: The Story of a Scientific Adventure

Bertolotti, Mario

Paperback

Series: Astronomers' Universe

Astronomy & SpaceGeneral MathematicsPhysics

Publisher Price: $44.99

ISBN10: 3642283705
ISBN13: 9783642283703
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 14 2012
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Prehistory - The electron, the proton and X-rays.- Prehistory - Radioactivity.- Cosmic rays - The antefacts.- The discovery - Victor F. Hess and the balloon flights.- The confirmation - Robert Millikan and the birth cry of the borning atoms.- A turning point - Things are not as they look.- The earth magnetic field and the geomagnetic effects.- The positive electron.- The electromagnetic showers.- The muon.- The discovery of the π-meson, nuclear emulsions and the first strange particles.- The extended showers.- Nuclear stars.- The neutrino: elusive and capricious particles able to come from very far away.- What are the primary cosmic rays?.- The origin of cosmic rays.- X- and gamma rays from space.

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