| Description |
1 online resource (175 p.) |
| Series |
Frontiers in Physics Ser |
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Frontiers in Physics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Chapter 1: Survey of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Present Knowledge of Cosmic Rays -- 1.2.1 Chemical Composition -- 1.2.2 Spectrum -- 1.3 Candidate Sources -- 1.4 Acceleration Models -- 1.5 Propagation -- 1.6 Direct Measurement Techniques -- 1.7 Indirect Detection through Extensive Air Showers -- 1.7.1 Ground Array Experiments -- 1.7.2 Atmospheric Light Emission Experiments |
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1.7.3 New Approaches to Detecting UHECR -- References -- Chapter 2: Extensive Air Showers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Heitler Model of Electromagnetic Showers -- 2.3 Matthews-Heitler Model of Hadronic Showers -- References -- Chapter 3: Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Programs to Simulate Air Showers -- 3.3 Hadronic Generator Routines -- 3.4 Uncertainties from Extrapolation of Cross Sections -- 3.5 Efficiency Calculation in Fluorescence Detector Analysis -- 3.6 Efficiency Calculation in Surface Detector Analysis -- References |
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5.9 Longitudinal Shower Size Determination -- 5.10 Determining the Shower Energy -- 5.11 Undetected Energy Corrections -- 5.12 Calculating the Differential Cosmic Ray Spectrum -- 5.13 Measuring Cherenkov Light Angular Distribution -- 5.14 Improvements to the Basic Technique -- References -- Chapter 6: Experimental Techniques: Hybrid Detectors -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Analysis of Hybrid Events -- 6.3 Energy Range Covered by Hybrid Events -- References -- Chapter 7: Experimental Techniques: Radio Detection of Cosmic Ray Cascades -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Geomagnetic Effect |
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7.3 The Askaryan Effect -- 7.4 Reconstructing Cosmic Ray Properties from Radio Measurements -- 7.5 Experiments -- 7.6 Summary -- References -- Chapter 8: The Cosmic Ray Spectrum -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The End of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Spectrum -- 8.3 The Galactic-Extragalactic Transition and Extragalactic Spectrum -- References -- Chapter 9: Searches for Anisotropy -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 TA Hotspot and Auger Warm Spot -- 9.3 The Auger Dipole -- 9.4 Variation of the Cutoff Energy with Declination -- 9.5 Energy-Angle Correlations -- References -- Chapter 10: Composition: Direct Methods |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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10.1 Introduction |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomson, Gordon
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| ISBN |
9780429621765 |
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0429621760 |
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