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High energy cosmic ray particles and the most powerful new type discharges in thunderstorm atmosphere

A. V. Gurevich, K. P. Zybin

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0403050

Abstract

The runaway breakdown -- extensive atmospheric shower discharge (RB - EAS) excited in thunderstorm atmosphere by high energy cosmic ray particles (εp>1017 - 1019 eV) generate very powerful radio pulse. The RB - EAS theory is compared with observations of radio pulses. An agreement between the theory and experiment is established. The existence of nowaday satellite and ground based systems which obtain regularly a large amount of observational radio data could allow to use them in combination with other methods for effective study of high energy cosmic ray particles

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