Most of the exposure estimated in Thursday's paper would come from galactic cosmic rays.
The data gathered provided the first accurate measurement of the composition of primary cosmic rays.
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The experiment ran for 103 hours and collected data for nearly 100 million cosmic rays.
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The detector at its current size catches more than 1, 000 cosmic rays per second.
The first particle physicists detected their subatomic subjects, including cosmic rays, using devices called cloud chambers.
You also yammer about how much we get from cosmic rays, which is true.
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The device counts neutrons that cosmic rays have knocked out of atoms on the moon's surface.
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Astronauts, too, are at risk from the higher doses of radiation associated with cosmic rays.
Around 80 of these were caused by cosmic rays more energetic than theory allows.
Recent experiments at CERN have shown the possible powerful influence of cosmic rays on clouds and climate.
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Its three scientific instruments would probe cosmic rays and clouds to test current models of climate change.
Next, the field is switched off, allowing actual cosmic rays to permeate the chamber for a while.
Scientists have known about cosmic rays since their discovery by Victor Hess in the early 20th century.
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The number of cosmic rays that hit the Earth is reduced when the Sun's activity is high.
Cosmic rays are fast moving subatomic particles and nuclei originating from space that crash into the atmosphere.
When cosmic rays pass through the NOvA detector, they leave straight tracks and deposit well-known amounts of energy.
Naturally occurring neutrinos from cosmic rays, supernovae and the sun stream through the detector at the same time.
Why more cosmic rays should mean more clouds is not clear, but there are at least two theories.
This is predicted due to important modulating cloud-forming influences of cosmic rays throughout periods of reduced sunspot activity.
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Some researchers have attempted to link the intensity of cosmic rays at Earth to cloudiness and climate change.
It has been proposed that reduced cosmic rays may lead to reduced cloud formation, causing global temperatures to rise.
As cosmic rays batter their way through the atmosphere, they knock electrons off gas molecules, creating electrically charged ions.
The AMS is expected to remain operational for 10 to 18 years, collecting around 16 billion cosmic rays each year.
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By firing particle beams through it, they would then recreate the rain of cosmic rays and see whether clouds formed.
The magnetic fields around the black holes may speed up the cosmic rays, which would help explain their super energies.
They then decided to test the first, and easiest, hypothesis: that energetic cosmic rays are caused by hungry black holes.
Meanwhile, groups in Italy and Japan are looking for monopoles that might be arriving in the form of cosmic rays.
If it is correct, then cosmic rays may create clouds with more small droplets than would otherwise be the case.
The magnetic field associated with these particles helps protect the Earth from cosmic rays by deflecting them from the planet.
The machine will be fixed to the top of the ISS where it will undertake a comprehensive survey of cosmic rays.
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