Latitude effect and atmospheric attenuation of the cosmic ray nucleon component
Abstract
The latitude effect has been studied by means of a shipboard neutron monitor during 12 passages of the so-called knee. The latter remained in a fixed position (46.0° ± 1.0° N, 7° W) between Oct. 1956 and Feb. 1959. Above the knee there exists a plateau due to the atmospheric attenuation of the nucleon component. The horizontal part of this plateau extends to a threshold rigidity of 3.2 ± 0.5 GeV/c.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v14i3.9562 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 356 - 362
Published on: Jan 1, 1962
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1962 Arne Eld Sandström, Martin A. Pomerantz, Bengt-Olov Grönkvist, published by Stockholm University Press
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