Isotopic Stack: Measurement of Heavy Cosmic Rays
Abstract
A stack of plastic nuclear track detectors was exposed to heavy cosmic rays on the pallet of Spacelab 1. Some layers of the stack were rotated with respect to the main stack to determine the arrival time of the particles. After return of the stack the latent particle tracks are revealed by chemical etching. Under the optical microscope the charge, mass, energy, and impact direction of the particles can be deduced from the track geometry.
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Volume 225 | Issue 4658
13 July 1984
13 July 1984
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1984 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Received: 27 March 1984
Accepted: 30 May 1984
Published in print: 13 July 1984
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