Magnetic deflection of cosmic rays in the equatorial plane

✍ Scribed by L.A. Van Wijk; H. Zanstra

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1936
• Weight: 425 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8914
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-8914(36)80209-2

✦ Synopsis

S u m m a r y Using S t 6 r m e r's solution for the individual trajectories of corpuscular charged rays in the plane of the magnetic equator, the case of a vertical system of counters at the magnetic equator of the earth can be worked out completely, assuming the coincidences to be produced by p r i m a r y rays. For cosmic rays originating from the Milky W a y System, a large diurnal variation would remain, though the magnetic field tends to iron out differences. Thus the conclusion t h a t rays reaching the earth's surface do not to a large e x t e n t originate from the Milky W a y is substantiated. For eventual absorbing m a t t e r in the Galactic System the earth's magnetic field makes it harder to detect the absorption, the intensity decrement being divided by a factor of about 26 for an absorbing strip of width 30 ° .