The Story of Cosmic Rays: The Story of the Mysterious and Unseen But Powerful Visitors from Space |
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altitude apparatus atmos atomic nuclei atomic number balloon Bartol Research Foundation billion electron volts cascade charged atom charged particles Cloud Chamber Photographs collision cosmic radiation cosmic ray energies cosmic ray intensity cosmic ray particles COUNTS PER MINUTE disintegration earth's magnetic field earth's orbit elec electrical electromagnetic ELEMENTARY PARTICLES elements enter our atmosphere existence Fermi mechanism further descent galaxy gamma rays gauss Geiger counters high-energy particle increase ionization chamber ionizing ray ions kind kinetic energy lead plates lisions magnetic equator mass matter meso mesotrons negative electrons netic field neutrino neutrons nuclear nucleus number of electrons origin outer pair production penetrate physicists pi-mesotron pole positively charged potential difference primary cosmic rays primary particle primary radiation primary rays protons radioactive result solar space spheres stars stellar sun's magnetic field telescope tions tive tracks tron tudes V-particle velocity of light vessel vicinity waves Yukawa's Zeeman effect