Physics
Scientific paper
May 1950
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1950phrv...78..243s&link_type=abstract
Physical Review, vol. 78, Issue 3, pp. 243-246
Physics
Scientific paper
The paper concerns the possibility of the path of a cosmic-ray α-particle, proton, or mesotron being bent in the atmosphere by the earth's magnetic field in such a manner as to pass vertically upward through a counter telescope. In order to pass vertically upward through the telescope, it is necessary for the ray to have been horizontal at some time during its path; and taking into account the minimum energies necessitated by absorption along the path, it appears that, for a telescope at an altitude comparable with 100,000 ft., neither an α-particle nor a proton would have "vertical room" between the telescope and the earth to describe the angle (π2) necessary to take it from the horizontal to the vertical upward direction. For a mesotron there would be room, but in this case the mesotron "mean life" operates to prevent the phenomenon happening in appreciable degree; it is shown that regardless of energy or the law of energy loss, only a fraction e-11.6 of any assigned number of mesotrons cal live long enough to travel through a right angle in the earth's magnetic field.
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