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Influence of the barometric effect on the surface particle detectors count rates

  • 1. A. Alikhanyan National Lab (Yerevan Physics Institute), Yerevan (Armenia)

Description

Facilities of the Aragats Space Environment Center (ASEC) observe charged and neutral fluxes of secondary cosmic rays by the variety of particle detectors located on the slopes of Mt. Aragats at altitude 3200 m. During 2008-2018 by ASEC particle detectors were registered more than 500 so called Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements (TGEs), fluxes of electrons and gamma rays well the background level correlated with thunderstorms. For taking into account a possible influence of the barometric effect on the enhanced fluxes and for correcting TGE significance, the barometric coefficients for ASEC detectors were calculated. In this work, we present barometric coefficients, calculated for STAND1cm, STAND3cm and SEVAN detectors as well as a comparison of pressure corrected and uncorrected data for some of registered TGE events

Part of:
International TEPA Symposium on Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
CRD Cosmic Ray Division, A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia
Imprint Place
Yerevan (Armenia)
ISBN
978-99941-0-905-0
Imprint Title
International TEPA Symposium on Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration
Imprint Pagination
164 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 111-117

Conference

Title
8 International Symposium on Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration, 10 years of TGE observation on Aragats
Acronym
TEPA-2018
Dates
17-20 Sep 2018
Place
Nor Amberd (Armenia)

INIS

Country of Publication
Armenia
Country of Input or Organization
Armenia
INIS RN
50069603
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY FLUX; ELECTRONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLES
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; RADIATION FLUX; RADIATIONS

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