extensive air showers

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• Air shower (physics) — Cosmic ray air shower created by a 1TeV proton hitting the atmosphere 20 km above the Earth. The shower was simulated using the AIRES package. Animated 3d models of this and other showers can be found on COSMUS. An air shower is an extensive… …   Wikipedia

• air mass — a body of air covering a relatively wide area, exhibiting approximately uniform properties through any horizontal section. [1890 95] * * * In meteorology, a large body of air having nearly uniform conditions of temperature and humidity at any… …   Universalium

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• CORSIKA — Infobox Software name = CORSIKA, an Extensive Air Shower Simulation Program caption = author = Tanguy Pierog, Dieter Heck, Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany; Johannes Knapp, Department of Physics and Astronomy,… …   Wikipedia

• cosmic ray — Physics. a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high energy atomic nuclei. [1920 25, Amer.] * * * High speed particle (atomic nucleus or electron) that travels through the Milky Way Galaxy.… …   Universalium

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• EAS — 1. Engine Air Start Contributor: MSFC 2. Extensive Air Showers (Cosmic Rays) Contributor: CASI …   NASA Acronyms

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• Georgiy Zatsepin — Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin ( ru. Георгий Тимофеевич Зацепин) (born OldStyleDate|May 28|1917|May 15 in Moscow) Soviet/Russian astrophysicist, known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics. Zatsepin graduated from the… …   Wikipedia

• Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit — The Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (GZK limit) is a theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic rays (high energy charged particles from space) coming from distant sources. The limit is 5×1019 eV, or about 8 joules. The limit is set by slowing …   Wikipedia