Composition and Origin of Cosmic Rays

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to the Galactic Cosmic Radiation....Pages 1-24
The Spectra of Cosmic Ray Nuclei > 1 Gev/nuc — Implications for Acceleration and Propagation....Pages 25-45
Significance of Ultraheavy Cosmic Rays....Pages 47-64
Cosmic-Ray Isotopic Composition....Pages 65-82
Cosmic Ray Electrons and Positrons — a Review of Current Measurements and Some Implications....Pages 83-100
Cosmic Ray Composition at 10 12 – 10 15 eV Derived from Muon Measurements....Pages 101-118
Antiprotons in the Cosmic Radiation....Pages 119-124
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays....Pages 125-148
On the Origin of Low Energy Anomalous Component of Galactic Cosmic Rays....Pages 149-154
Solar Energetic Particle Studies....Pages 155-160
Cosmic Ray Acceleration Mechanisms....Pages 161-168
Cosmic-Ray Acceleration by Diffusive Shocks: Cut-Off Energy....Pages 169-174
Galactic Propagation of Cosmic Rays....Pages 175-191
Cosmic Ray Sources....Pages 193-230
Sources of Extragalactic Cosmic Rays: Photons and Neutrinos as Probes....Pages 231-244
Extragalactic Cosmic Rays, Active Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects....Pages 245-250
Deep Underwater Muon and Neutrino Detection (Dumand)....Pages 251-268
Future Muon and Neutrino Experiments....Pages 269-289
Detectors of Ultraheavy Cosmic Rays....Pages 291-300
The Bugs 4 Cosmic Ray Detector....Pages 301-308
A Detector to Investigate the Anomalous Component of Cosmic Rays and its Rarer Constituents Including a Possible Molecular Ion Component....Pages 309-316
Complete Fragment Yields from Spallation Reactions via a Combined Time-of-Flight and ΔE-E Technique....Pages 317-320
Improvement of Calculations of Cross Sections and Cosmic-Ray Propagation....Pages 321-336
Matrix Methods of Cosmic Ray Propagation....Pages 337-342
The Effect of Cross-Section Uncertainties on the Derivation of Source Abundances from Cosmic-Ray Composition Observations....Pages 343-350
Relativistic Particles and Gamma-Rays in Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 351-356
Proton Decay and Neutrino Experiments in the Mount Blanc Tunnel....Pages 357-362
The IMB Proton Decay Detector....Pages 363-366
Effectiveness of HZE-Particles onto Different Biological Systems in the Biostack Experiments on Apollo 16, and 17 and on ASTP....Pages 367-381
The Decay of “Mesotrons” (1939–1943), Experimental Particle Physics in the Age of Innocence....Pages 383-400
Back Matter....Pages 401-414