Air shower (physics)
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air-shower-physics-182-3733630
title:
Air shower (physics)
text:
Air showers are extensive cascades of subatomic particles and ionized nuclei, produced in the atmosphere when a primary cosmic ray enters the atmosphere. Particles of cosmic radiation can be protons, nuclei, electrons, photons, or (rarely) positrons. Upon entering the atmosphere, they interact with molecules and initiate a particle cascade that lasts for several generations, until the energy of the primary particle is fully converted. If the primary particle is a hadron, mostly light mesons like
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Cascade of atmospheric subatomic particles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_shower_(physics)
date created:
2005-02-04T03:14:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T09:56:16Z
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