A Thin Cosmic Rain : : Particles from Outer Space / / Michael W. Friedlander.
Enigmatic for many years, cosmic rays are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective stor...
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Friedlander, Michael W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Thin Cosmic Rain : Particles from Outer Space / Michael W. Friedlander. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2000 1 online resource (241 p.) : 43 halftones, 30 line illustrations, 7 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1 THE EARLY DAYS -- 2 IDENTIFYING COSMIC RAYS -- 3 THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC INFLUENCE -- 4 PARTICLES FROM THE SUN -- 5 COSMIC RAYS IN THE GALAXY -- 6 THE ENERGY SPECTRUM -- 7 ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES -- 8 NUCLEAR CLUES -- 9 THE ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS -- 10 COSMIC ELECTRONS AND GAMMA RAYS -- 11 COSMIC NEUTRINOS -- 12 THE SUBNUCLEAR WORLD -- 13 FOOTPRINTS AND SOUVENIRS -- 14 EPILOGUE -- WORKS CITED -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Enigmatic for many years, cosmic rays are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective story behind the discovery and study of cosmic rays, a story that stretches from the early days of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s to the frontiers of high-energy astrophysics today. Writing for the amateur scientist and the educated general reader, Michael Friedlander, a cosmic ray researcher, relates the history of cosmic ray science from its accidental discovery to its present status. He explains how cosmic rays are identified and how their energies are measured, then surveys current knowledge and theories of thin cosmic rain. The most thorough, up-to-date, and readable account of these intriguing phenomena, his book makes us party to the search into the nature, behavior, and origins of cosmic rays—and into the sources of their enormous energy, sometimes hundreds of millions times greater than the energy achievable in the most powerful earthbound particle accelerators. As this search led unexpectedly to the discovery of new particles such as the muon, pion, kaon, and hyperon, and as it reveals scenes of awesome violence in the cosmos and offers clues about black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, quasars, and neutrinos, we see clearly why cosmic rays remain central to an astonishingly diverse range of research studies on scales infinitesimally small and large. Attractively illustrated, engagingly written, this is a fascinating inside look at a science at the center of our understanding of our universe. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Cosmic rays. Kosmische straling. Physik. Rayon cosmique. Rayonnement cosmique. SCIENCE / Cosmology. SCIENCE / General. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package 9783110353464 ZDB-23-HAH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674332539 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674332546 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674332546 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674332546/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1 THE EARLY DAYS -- 2 IDENTIFYING COSMIC RAYS -- 3 THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC INFLUENCE -- 4 PARTICLES FROM THE SUN -- 5 COSMIC RAYS IN THE GALAXY -- 6 THE ENERGY SPECTRUM -- 7 ULTRA-HIGH ENERGIES -- 8 NUCLEAR CLUES -- 9 THE ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS -- 10 COSMIC ELECTRONS AND GAMMA RAYS -- 11 COSMIC NEUTRINOS -- 12 THE SUBNUCLEAR WORLD -- 13 FOOTPRINTS AND SOUVENIRS -- 14 EPILOGUE -- WORKS CITED -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX |
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