The use of the high pressure cloud chamber in the study of the unstable particles of the cosmic radiation

Donald, E; Evans, G. E.; Williams, E.; Astbury, J. P.; Baxter, Peter; Bullock, F. W.; Burhop, E. H. S.; Hill, Robert S.; Jalil, M. E.; Massey, H. S. W.; Metheringham, A.J.; Morris, Norma; Probst, P. A.; Eaina, M. N.; Rangarao, B. V.; Stannard, F.R.; Tosilinson, H. S.

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“…21). a A group of physicists from London Imperial College and Edinburgh came to the laboratory too, in 1954, and they also brought their own cloud chamber, a high pressure one [229,230]. As a matter of fact, only few relevant scientific results were achieved at the Fedaia Laboratory in the years 1951-55: as Cresti told us, it was too late, both because from 1946-47, other chambers had been made (which had been started when Rossi was finishing his), and because the altitude of the laboratory, about 2000 meters, was no longer suitable (the other chambers were in use at about 3000 meters or more).…”

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The Italian contributions to cosmic-ray physics from Bruno Rossi to the G-Stack. A new window into the inexhaustible wealth of nature

Peruzzi,

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2018

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From the late 1920s to the early 1950s, cosmic rays were the main instrument to investigate what we now call "high-energy physics". In approximately 25 years, an intense experimental and theoretical work brought particle physics from its childhood to its maturity. The data collected at that time played a crucial role in order to outline the quantum theories of fundamental interactions -electromagnetic, weak and strong -and they were an excellent training field for many young scientists. The knowledge acquired on cosmic rays constituted the basis of the extraordinary progresses that were to be achieved in fundamental physics with the introduction of particles accelerators. Many papers on this subject have already been published, both by historians and by the scientists who personally worked at that time. However, a complete historical reconstruction of those 25 years of cosmic-ray researches has not been written yet. In particular, an overall description of the researches carried out with the contributions of Italian physicists is still missing. The present paper tries to outline such a description, taking into account the fact that in those very years, for scientific and non scientific reasons, physics researches were getting organised within international collaborations. Without pretending to be exhaustive at all, we would like this paper to be a stimulus for further researches on the subject. PACS 01.65.+g -History of science. PACS 10.00.00 -The physics of elementary particles and fields. PACS 29.00.00 -Experimental methods and instrumentation for elementaryparticle and nuclear physics.

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Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, 31 January 1911 - 22 January 1980

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Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop was born on 31 January 1911 at Hobart, Tasmania, of parents who were Salvation Army officers in poor financial circumstances. Because of the itinerant nature of his parents’ work he often had to change schools. Nevertheless, it soon became apparent that he possessed ability far above the average and his parents were prepared to sacrifice much to give him an opportunity to pursue his education through secondary school and early university until he was able to pay his own way with scholarships. He attended Ballarat and then Melbourne High School before entering Melbourne University as an engineering student in 1928. After one year he changed over to read science, specializing in physics. In 1929 he was awarded an Aitchison Bursary which assisted him financially through the remainder of his undergraduate career. He graduated B.Sc. with first class honours in physics in 1931 and then undertook an M .Sc. course in that subject. At the same time, because of his mathematical ability and interest, he completed the final honours course in mathematics to obtain the B.A. degree in 1932. Professor T . H. Laby, F .R .S., head of the Physics Department at Melbourne University, who took a close interest in promising students, realized that Burhop was exceptional and encouraged him to work towards a scientific career. The research problem for the M .Sc. which Laby proposed was quite a challenging one for the time— the determ ination of the probability of K shell ionization by electron impact, from measurements of the intensity of X -ray emission as a function of electron energy.

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The use of the high pressure cloud chamber in the study of the unstable particles of the cosmic radiation

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The Italian contributions to cosmic-ray physics from Bruno Rossi to the G-Stack. A new window into the inexhaustible wealth of nature

The Italian contributions to cosmic-ray physics from Bruno Rossi to the G-Stack. A new window into the inexhaustible wealth of nature

Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, 31 January 1911 - 22 January 1980

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