Earth's magnetic field as a radiator to detect cosmic ray electrons of energy greater than 10 to the 12th eV

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Oct 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983jgr....88.7811b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 88, Oct. 1, 1983, p. 7811-7822.

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Cosmic Rays, Electron Counters, Geomagnetism, High Energy Electrons, Synchrotron Radiation, Balloon-Borne Instruments, Electron Energy, Energy Spectra

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Synchrotron emission by a high-energy electron in the geomagnetic field and its dependence upon different arrival directions over Palestine, Texas, where major balloon-borne experiments are being conducted, is studied. The dependence of detector response on the arrival direction of electron, the different criteria which are adopted to identify an electron event, the area of the detector, and the energy of the electron are discussed. An omnidirectional circular detector is used to examine whether it is possible to determine the energy of an electron without knowing its arrival direction. The collecting power of a detector is estimated as a function of the energy of electrons for different detector areas with different selection criteria, and this information is used to calculate the event rates expected by folding in the energy spectrum of cosmic ray electrons to show the viability of detecting cosmic ray electrons at energies greater than a few TeV.

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