SciNeGHE 2012

Session

One century of cosmic ray studies

01

20 Jun 2012, 09:10

Lecce

Description

Celebration of the centenary of the discovery of the cosmic radiation

42. Studies and measurements before 1912

Alessandro De Angelis (INFN / Univ. di Udine)

20/06/2012, 09:10

Early measurements from Pacini and others

43. The Hess balloon flights

Michael Walter (DESY)

20/06/2012, 09:45

Review of the measurements of V. Hess and collaborators

44. The history of cosmic ray studies after Hess

Claus Grupen (Siegen University)

20/06/2012, 10:20

Cosmic rays after Hess is the birthplace of elementary particle physics. The 1936 Nobel prize was shared between Victor Hess and Carl Anderson. Anderson discovered the positron in a cloud chamber. The positron was predicted by Dirac several years earlier, but Anderson was not aware of it. In his subsequent cloud chamber investigations Anderson found - together with Neddermeyer - the muon,...