Kosmische Strahlung II / Cosmic Rays II [Paperback]

Theory of Cascade Showers.- A. Introduction.- B. The elementary processes.- I. Corrections to the Bethe-Heitler formula.- II. Radiation length and critical energy.- C. The diffusion equations for electron showers, and the limitations of the approximations.- I. The diffusion equations.- II. Limitations of the approximations.- D. Behaviour of the shower functions and elementary solutions.- E. One-dimensional electron shower theory.- I. Shower functions in Approximation A.- II. Shower functions in Approximation B.- III. Solution in other approximations.- F. Three-dimensional electron shower theory.- I. Three-dimensional electron shower theory in the Landau approximation.- II. Three-dimensional electron shower theory without the Landau approximation.- III. Behaviour of the structure function and its numerical evaluation.- G. Application of the theory to the shower phenomena.- References.- Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Physics.- I. Discovery of multiple production.- II. Direct observations of high-energy interactions.- III. Behaviour of high-energy cosmic rays.- IV. Models of multiple production.- V. Summary of cosmic-ray information.- References.- The Spectrum and Charge Composition of the Primary Cosmic Radiation.- I. Introduction.- II. Solar influences on the spectrum.- a) Solar produced changes in the total radiation.- b) Solar produced changes in the proton component.- c) Solar produced changes in the helium component.- d) Solar produced changes in the S nuclei (Z?6).- e) From a spectrum of the solar modulation.- III. Spectrum of the total radiation.- a) Primary spectrum derived from ion chamber and counter measurements in the latitude sensitive region.- b) Primary spectrum at energies of 1001000 GeV derived from the spectrum of ?-rays at high altitudes.- c) Primary 1014 eV/Nuc.- XII. Detailed charge features of the radiation.- a) Isotopic composition of the primary radiation.- XIII. A comparison of the spectra of the different charge groups.- a) Charge composition alSç