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IT has been shown by Broadbent and Jánossy1 that penetrating cosmic ray showers are of two types : (a) local penetrating showers ; (b) extensive penetrating showers. Local penetrating showers are supposed to be produced by primary nucleons, and they give rise to a transition effect which is proportional to mass. Extensive penetrating showers appear to be parts of extensive air showers. They show a strong transition effect in lead but almost none in paraffin.
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Broadbent and Jánossy, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 190, 497 (1947).
Jánossy, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 183, 190 (1944).
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APPAPILLAI, V., MAILVAGANAM, A. Latitude Effect of Penetrating Cosmic Ray Showers. Nature 162, 887–888 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162887b0
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