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From extensive air showers to the characteristics of primary cosmic rays. To the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of D. V. Skobel’tsyn

N.N. Kalmykov, G.V. Kulikov

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 2012. 67. N 6. P. 508

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The works by D.V. Skobel’tsyn that laid the foundation of the contemporary physics of cosmic rays and the physics of high energies are considered. Skobel’tsyn demonstrated that cosmic rays contain particles whose energy substantially surpasses the energies that are typical of radioactive decay, discovered the existence of air showers, i.e., when several particles hit an array simultaneously, and performed a series of investigations into extensive air showers that resulted in the discovery of a nuclear-cascade process in the atmosphere. The results that Skobel’tsyn obtained were of primary importance for the further development of cosmic-ray physics.

Received: 2012 August 30
Approved: 2014 February 26
PACS:
96.50.S- Cosmic rays
96.50.sd Extensive air showers
Authors
N.N. Kalmykov, G.V. Kulikov
Skobel’tsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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