X-Nico

unusual facts about cosmic ray



LUCID

LUCID (Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector) is a cosmic ray detector being built for a satellite of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, in Canterbury, England.

O'Neill cylinder

At this scale, the air within the cylinder and the shell of the cylinder provide adequate shielding against cosmic rays.

Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr.

He worked there with Cesare M. G. Lattes (one of the discoverers of the centauro events) produced by collisions of very high energy cosmic rays with the atmosphere or with target atoms.


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Cherenkov radiation

The Cherenkov radiation from these charged particles is used to determine the source and intensity of the cosmic ray or gamma ray, which is used for example in the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), by experiments such as VERITAS, H.E.S.S. and MAGIC.

HEAO Program

The High Energy Astronomy Observatory Program was a NASA program of the late 1970s and early 1980s that included a series of three large low-Earth-orbiting spacecraft for X-ray and Gamma-Ray astronomy and Cosmic-Ray investigations.

Lorentz covariance

They can be tested, at least partially, by ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments like the Pierre Auger Observatory.

Martin A. Pomerantz

He supervised the installation of a stationary cosmic ray detector facility at Thule Air Base in Greenland, and in 1960 Pomerantz installed a cosmic ray detector at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory

MACRO (Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory) was a particle physics experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Abruzzo, Italy.

Supernova remnant

Vitaly Ginzburg and Sergei Syrovatskii in 1964 remarked that if the efficiency of cosmic ray acceleration

Wilson Marcy Powell

Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941, Powell put together the Kenyon Cosmic Ray Expedition, and took a cloud chamber to the top of Mount Evans in Colorado.

Yoji Totsuka

He later became the Director of the Kamioka Observatory, part of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo in 1995 and then Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research in 1997.