Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm13a1669l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM13A-1669
Physics
2104 Cosmic Rays, 2479 Solar Radiation And Cosmic Ray Effects, 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2774 Radiation Belts, 2776 Polar Cap Phenomena
Scientific paper
Bidoli et al. (2003) reported observations of large abundances of deuterium and tritium relative to hydrogen below a few tens of MeV/nuc among the secondary particles escaping the atmosphere after the impact of primary cosmic rays. The SAMPEX satellite spent much of 1996-1998 spinning at 1 RPM, and since late 2007 it has been back in 1 RPM spin mode again; thus its sensors spend half their time looking downward, allowing atmospheric albedo particles to be observed directly. With the Proton/Electron Telescope (PET), hydrogen isotopes are measured in the energy range from about 18 MeV/nuc to 60 to 500 MeV/nuc depending on species. We have previously used PET to measure deuterium and tritium among the Earth's geomagnetically-trapped particle population; we will report here on the results of a search for these isotopes among atmospheric albedo during solar-activity minimum conditions.
Bernard Blake J.
Looper Mark Dixon
Mewaldt Richard A.
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