Sentences with phrase «producing air showers»
And Auger researchers are adding additional detectors to their tanks that should better determine the type of cosmic ray that produced each air shower.
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Periodically invoking those norms generates fresh awareness and understanding, much as hot and cold air combine to produce a shower.
When a high energy cosmic ray strikes the atmosphere, it produces a so - called air shower — an avalanche of lower energy particles.
Instead, the structures catch the cascade of particles cosmic rays produce when they slam into Earth's atmosphere, called an air shower.
The air rises and forms clouds filled with snow, which then produce heavy showers downwind of the shore.
The EUSO telescope, which will be used to find debris, was originally planned to detect ultraviolet light emitted from air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays entering the atmosphere at night.
This cascade ionises the air, producing a conical shower of free electrons where a current might begin to flow.
Like Auger, TA also features batteries of specialized telescopes that on clear, moonless nights can detect the faint light, or fluorescence, produced by an extensive air shower.
When high energy cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere, they interact with air molecules producing a cascade of secondary particles which propagate through the atmosphere in a so - called air shower.