| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Recent measurements on cosmic rays spectra and composition (Chairperson: M. I. Panasyuk). The alpha magnetic spectrometer, a particle physics experiment in space / R. Battiston -- Review on precision measurements of high energy hadrons / J. Casaus -- Review of precision measurements of high energy electrons / B. Bertucci -- A Monte Carlo simulation of the cosmic rays interactions with the Earth's atmosphere / P. Zuccon -- Review of balloons muon measurement in the atmosphere / T. Sanuki -- An analytical solution of the cosmic rays transport equation in the presence of the geomagnetic field / M. Gibilisco -- Interaction of cosmic rays with the geomagnetic field (Chairperson: G. Battistoni). Leptons with E > 200 MeV trapped in the South Atlantic Anomaly / E. Fiandrini and G. Esposito -- Simulation of atmospheric secondary hadron and lepton flux from satellite to underground experiments / M. Buénerd -- Review on modelling of the radiation belts / D. Heynderickx -- Low energy solar and galactic cosmic rays at 1 AU / M. Casolino -- Low energy electron and positron spectra in the Earth orbit measured by MARIA-2 instrument / V.V. Mikhailov -- The trapped anomalous component of the cosmic rays: the short overview of experiments / M.I. Panasyuk -- Biological effects of cosmic radiation in low-Earth orbit / M. Durante -- Neutrinos as dark matter candidates / A. Masiero and S. Pascoli -- Recent developments on atmospheric neutrinos (Chairperson: F. Cervelli). Simulation of particle fluxes in the Earth's vicinity / V. Plyaskin -- Calculation of secondary particles in atmosphere and hadronic interactions / G. Battistoni, A. Ferrari and P.R. Sala -- Massive neutrinos and theoretical developments / A. Strumia and F. Vissani -- Neutrinos from supernovae: experimental status / F. Cei -- Dark matter and gamma rays (Chairperson: B. Bertucci). Searches for dark matter particles through cosmic ray measurements / P. Ullio -- Integral: a gamma-ray observatory / N. Produit -- The AGILE mission and gamma-ray astrophysics / M. Tavani -- Pulsars, blazars and dark matter with AMS / M. Pohl -- Cosmic photon and positron spectra measurements modelling with the AMS-02 detector at ISS / V. Choutko, G. Lamanna and A. Malinin -- Dark matter search with gamma rays: the experiments EGRET and GLAST / A. Morselli |
| Summary |
This book presents the progress in cosmic ray physics following the recent results obtained by balloon, satellite and underground experiments. The following topics are reviewed: Composition and propagation of cosmic rays, trapping of charged particles in the earth's magnetic field, atmospheric neutrinos, and high energy photon measurements in space |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Cosmic rays -- Congresses
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Matter -- Congresses
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Antimatter -- Congresses
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Dark matter (Astronomy) -- Congresses
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Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Congresses
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Neutrinos -- Congresses
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Gamma rays -- Congresses
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Photons -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Astrophysics.
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Antimatter
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Cosmic rays
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Dark matter (Astronomy)
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Gamma rays
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Matter
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Neutrinos
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Photons
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Battiston, Roberto
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Bertucci, Bruna
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| ISBN |
9789812776808 |
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981277680X |
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1281929360 |
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9781281929365 |
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9786611929367 |
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6611929363 |
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