Measurement of ultra-heavy cosmic rays at a lunar base

A wealth of information regarding cosmic ray synthesis and propagation is contained in the ultra-heavy (Z{gt}60) cosmic ray abundances; to extract this information, however, requires a detector capable of acquiring large statistics for these rare particles, as well as a charge resolution adequate to...

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Published inAIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA) Vol. 202:1
Main Authors Salamon, M.H., Price, P.B., Tarle, G.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 15.03.1990
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440104 - Radiation Instrumentation- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
ABUNDANCE
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
COSMIC RAY SOURCES
DETECTION
DIELECTRIC TRACK DETECTORS
ELEMENT ABUNDANCE
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
GLASS
HEAVY NUCLEI
INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISOTOPE RATIO
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MOON
NUCLEI
PLANNING
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIATION DETECTORS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SATELLITES
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Summary:A wealth of information regarding cosmic ray synthesis and propagation is contained in the ultra-heavy (Z{gt}60) cosmic ray abundances; to extract this information, however, requires a detector capable of acquiring large statistics for these rare particles, as well as a charge resolution adequate to separate neighboring charge peaks at very large Z. A large, passive surface array of nuclear-track-detecting glass plates would meet these requirements. These glass plates could be periodically processe and analyzed for tracks at a lunar base, then melted/annealed for reuse in a continuously recycled detector array.
Bibliography:CONF-8905272-
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616