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10.8. Exercises
10.1. What proof exists that some cosmic rays do not come from the sun?
10.2. (a) What is the primary cosmic radiation hiuing earth's atmosphere? (b) Does it penetrate to the earth's
surface?
10.3. What background from cosmic radiation is expected for an unshielded 100 ml ion chamber which exhibits
an area of 100 cm 2 perpendicular to the direction of the cosmic radiation?
10.4. Which type of mesons are released in high energy particle interactions, and why?
10.5. (a) What kinds of forces exist in nature? (b) How does the weak interaction manifest its properties?
10.6. (a) What are bosom and how do they differ from fermions? (b) Does the difference have any practical
consequence?
10.7. What proof exists that the photon has matter properties?
10.8. How can the neutrino be detected?

10.9. Literature

Cosmic radiation

s. FLOGGE (ed.), Kosmische Strahlung, Handbuch der Physik, Band XLV 1/1, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1961.
G. BURBID~E, The origin of cosmic rays, Sci. Am. 215, Aug. 1966.
A. W~ER, The cosmic background radiation, Sci. Am. 231, Aug. 1974.
D. D. P~ERMAN and E. V. BENTON, High LET particle radiation inside Skylab command module, Health Physics
29 (1975) 125.

Elementary particles
B. P. GREGORY, Annual Report 1974, CERN.
LANDOLT - ]]~RNSTEIN, Properties and Production Spectra of Elementary Particles, Neue Sefie I, 6, Springer
Vedag, 1972.
S. WEINnERG, Unified Theories of Elementary Particle Interaction, Sci. Amer., 231 (1974) 50.
M. JACOB and P. LANDSHEFF, The Inner Structure of the Proton, Sci. Amer., 242 (1980) 66.
K. S. KRANE, Introductory Nuclear Physics, J. Wiley & Sons, 1988.
J. R. REES, The Stanford Linear Accelerator, Sci. Am. Oct. 1989.
C. RUeBIA and M. JACOB, The Z ~ Amer. Scient., 78 (1990) 502.