A very high-energy cosmic ray iron nucleus shoots into some photographic emulsion & collides with a silver or bromine nucleus in the emulsion to produ
A very high-energy cosmic ray iron nucleus shoots into some photographic emulsion & collides with a silver or bromine nucleus in the emulsion to produce a tremendous \jet\" of about 850 mesons. From the divergence of the jet, the total energy of the incoming iron nucleus is calculated to be more than 15,000 GeV - an example of the enormous energy that can be carried by some cosmic rays. (The central bright core of the jet is about mm across)."
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Photo credit: © POWELL, FOWLER & PERKINS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: atomic, cosmic, disintegration, emulsion, high-energy, image, iron, matter, nuclear, nucleus, odyssey, particle, photo, photograph, physics, ray, subatomic
