ROCKET OBSERVATIONS OF SLOW HEAVY PRIMARY NUCLEI AT KRONOGARD, SWEDEN,

Abstract

Small emulsion blocks recovered from a series of NikeCajun rockets launched from Kronogard, Sweden exhibit the tracks of slow heavy primary nuclei which stop by ionization in the detectors. The charge distribution of these particles, estimated from track width measurements, is consistent with a galactic origin. The kinetic energy of the particles estimated from their range resides between 60 and 570 MeV per nucleon. This preliminary experiment suggests that important information on the charge and energy spectra can be secured by exposing large areas of emulsion in geophysical sounding rockets. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 06, 1964
Accession Number
AD0613755

Entities

People

  • B. Lindkvist
  • E. Holeman
  • H. Yagoda
  • K. Fukui
  • K. Kristiansson

Organizations

  • Lund University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Detectors
  • Emulsions
  • Energy
  • Ionization
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Particles
  • Rockets
  • Sounding Rockets
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.