Bursts of fast neutron flows on the earth's surface as the completion of the process of energetic proton scattering from the captured radiation zones

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Space and Atmospheric Physics
1Zalyubovsky, II, 1Kartashev, VM, 1Kovtun, VE, 1Minko, OK, 1Shmatko, ES
1V.N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2003, 9 ;(5-6):106-110
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2003.05.106
Publication Language: Russian
Abstract: 
The possibility of indirect ground-based detection of bursts of energetic proton scattering from the Earth's internal radiation zone is considered. The bursts are shown to be transformed into bursts of fast atmospheric neutrons. Efficient detection of the neutron bursts is possible at low latitudes when muon-neutron scintillation telescope with an area of five square metres is used.
Keywords: atmospheric neutrons, energetic protons, fast neutrons, muon-neutron scintillation telescope
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