Influence of the Earth's Magnetic Field on Air Showers
- 15 February 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 101 (4), 1405-1406
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.101.1405
Abstract
Cocconi has estimated that the deflection of air shower particles in the earth's magnetic field should produce some ellipticity of shower structure, with the major axis in the E-W direction. Experimental evidence is advanced to show that the variation in shower structure at sea level is less than 4%, which compares favorably with Cocconi's theoretical value of ∼2% and proves that, at low altitudes, the displacement of particles from the shower axis produced by the earth's magnetic field is negligible in comparison with Coulomb scattering.Keywords
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