Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics

Gaisser, Thomas K.

ISBN 10: 0521326672 / ISBN 13: 9780521326674

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990

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23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. xvi 279pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. A few pages (~4) have some underlining and a name has been whited out on the front free endapper. Stamp on rear endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521326672
• ISBN 13: 9780521326674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Book club edition.
• Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Physics

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Synopsis

Over recent years there has been marked growth in interest in the study of techniques of cosmic ray physics by astrophysicists and particle physicists. Cosmic radiation is important for the astrophysicist because in the farther reaches of the universe. For particle physicists, it provides the opportunity to study neutrinos and very high energy particles of galactic origin. More importantly, cosmic rays constitue the background, and in some cases possibly the signal, for the more exotic unconfirmed hypothesized particles such as monopoles and sparticles. Concentrating on the highest energy cosmic rays, this book describes where they originate, acquire energy, and interact, in accreting neutron stars, supernova remnants, in large-scale shock waves. It also describes their interactions in the atmosphere and in the earth, how they are studied in surface and very large underground detectors, and what they tell us.

Book Description

Concentrating on the highest energy cosmic rays, this work describes where they originate, acquire energy, and interact, in accreting neutron stars, supernova remnants, and in large-scale shock waves.