Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1 –
History of Cosmic Ray Discovery and Experiments Showing Their Nature and Cosmic Origin (Dedicated to 100 Years of Discovery) (pp. 1-92)
Lev I. Dorman and Irina V. Dorman (Israel Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Centre with Emilio Segre Israel-Italian Observatory, affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Golan Research Institute and Israel Space Agency, Israel, and others)
Chapter 2 –
History of the First Anti-Particle Discovery in Cosmic Rays (Dedicated to 80 Years of Positron Discovery) (pp. 93-104)
Lev I. Dorman and Irina V. Dorman (Israel Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Centre with Emilio Segre Israel-Italian Observatory, affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Golan Research Institute and Israel Space Agency, Israel, and others)
Chapter 3 –
History of the First Meson Discovery in Cosmic Rays (Dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of Muon Discovery) (pp. 105-128)
Lev I. Dorman and Irina V. Dorman (Israel Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Centre with Emilio Segre Israel-Italian Observatory, affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Golan Research Institute and Israel Space Agency, Israel, and others)
Chapter 4 –
Three Cycle Quasi-Periodicity in Ap, IMF and Cosmic Rays: Implications for Global Climate Change (pp. 129-142)
H. S. Ahluwalia (Department of Physics amd Astronomy, MSC0, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Chapter 5 –
Cosmic Ray Fluctuations (pp. 143-176)
I. Ya. Libin (International Academy of Appraisal and Consulting (MAOK), Moscow, Russia, and others)
Chapter 6 –
On Cosmic Rays and Space Weather in the Vicinity of Earth (pp. 177-200)
Karel Kudela (Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova, Kosice, Slovakia)
Chapter 7 –
The JEM-EUSO Space Mission: Frontier Astroparticle Physics at ZeV Range from Space (pp. 201-212)
M. D. Rodríguez Frías, L. del Peral, G. Sáez Cano, J. A. Morales de los Ríos, H. Prieto, J. H. Carretero, K. Shinozaki, M. D. Sabau, T. Belenguer, C. González Alvarado, S. Briz, A. J. de Castro, I. Fernández, F. Cortés, F. López, J. Licandro, E. Joven, M. Reyes, O. Catalano, A. Anzalone, M. Casolino, K. Tsuno and S. Wada (Space & Astroparticle Group, UAH, Madrid, Spain, and others)
Chapter 8 –
Particles in the Heliosphere (pp. 213-220)
Luis Del Peral, M. D. Rodriguez-Frias and Raul Gomez-Herrero (Space & Astroparticle Physics Group, UAH, Madrid, Spain, and others)
Chapter 9 –
On the Observation of the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Below 10
15
eV (pp. 221-258)
G. Di Sciascio and R. Iuppa (INFN, sez. di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, and others)
Chapter 10 –
The Influence of Cosmic Rays on Antarctic Ozone Depletion (pp. 259-270)
Manuel Alvarez-Madrigal (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México, Ejidos de Huipulco, Tlalpan, México D.F. México)
Chapter 11 –
Cosmic Rays Composition: Pulsar Source (pp. 271-300)
Neïla Zarrouk and Raouf Bennaceur (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)
Chapter 12 –
Anisotropy of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays (pp. 301-332)
A. A. Mikhailov (Yu.G. Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, Yakutsk, Russia)
Chapter 13 –
Cosmic Rays and Other Space Weather Factors that Influence Satellite Operation and Technology, People’s Health, Climate Change, and Agriculture Production (pp. 333-450)
Lev Dorman, Lev Pustil’nik, Gregory Yom Din and David Shai Applbaum (Israel Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Centre with Emilio Segré Israel-Italian Observatory, affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Golan Research Institute, and Israel Space Agency, Israel, and others)
Chapter 14 –
Solar Activity, Cosmic Rays, and Global Climate Changes (pp. 451-468)
Yuri Stozhkov and Victor Okhlopkov (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and others)
Chapter 15 –
The (Super)-Secular Periodicity of the Cosmic Rays During the Holocene (pp. 469-476)
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera (Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyocán, México, D.F. Mexico)
Chapter 16 –
Cosmic Rays in Supernova Remnants: A Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes? (pp. 477-486)
Chih-Yueh Wang (Department of Physics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Chung-Pei Road, Chung-Li, Taiwan, and others)
Index
Audience: For graduates and undergraduate students and professional researchers in the field of Cosmic Ray Physikcs, Space Physics and high Energy particle physics. However, the practical absence of mathematics allos that people of many other specialties may become interested because the historical background of some of the chapters.