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ON THE GEOPHYSICAL AND GEONUCLEAR SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARTH'S RADIATION BELTS
ON THE GEOPHYSICAL AND GEONUCLEAR SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARTH'S RADIATION BELTS
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3. A typical time history of the outer zone on the occasion of a magnetic storm comprises a marked "dumping" or depletion of detectable radiation accompanied by aurorae, and enhanced atmospheric airglow, recovery of the intensity with a characteristic time of the order of a day to a value exceeding (perhaps by manyfold)
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4. There seems to be very little doubt that the outer zone is the result of intrusion of solar plasma into the geomagnetic field, of its temporary trapping there and of "local acceleration" of the charged particles therein.
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Thus the total source strength for trapped protons of possible geonuclear interest is energetically much less than 10-" of the total source strength for all cosmic ray processes. Trapped particles enjoy a vastly greater geometric path length than do cosmic ray secondaries 65
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The reader is reminded that the underlying assumption of the preceding discussion is that the trapped protons in the inner zone are the decay products of neutron albedo generated in the atmosphere by cosmic ray bombardment. It is conceivable, though perhaps unlikely, that they arise from geomagnetic capture of solar protons.
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5 Mev gammas.] Cameron: In view of the large radiation belts which we infer for Jupiter from the radio noise and polarization observations, we might expect Saturn to have substantial radiation belts as well.
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(1959) "Study of Terrestrial Corpuscular Radiation and Cosmic Rays during Flight of the Cosmic Rocket." Doklady Akad.
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