26th International Cosmic Ray Conference: Icrc Xxvi, Invited, Rapporteur, and Highlight Papers

by International Cosmic Ray Conference 1999 (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kieda, David B.; Salamon. M. H.; Dingus, Brenda L.

• ISBN13: 9781563969393
• ISBN10: 1563969394
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

Summary

The 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from August 17-25, 1999 with over 800 attendees. This book contains the invited, rapporteur, and highlight papers. These papers summarize the most exciting new results in the field of cosmic ray physics and detail their importance to the larger fields of astrophysics and high energy physics. Some of the topics included are cosmic rays, solar physics, high energy particles, neutrinos, gamma rays, astroparticle physics, cosmology, and experimental techniques.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Committees	ix
Sponsors	xi
Duggal Award	xiii
The O'Ceallaigh Medal	xv
Group Photograph	xvii
VICTOR HESS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Cosmic Chemical Evolution and the Evolution of Galaxies	3	(18)
M. S. Longair
INVITED PAPERS
Particle and Cosmology: Learning from Cosmic Rays	21	(26)
J. Ellis
Ancient Stardust in Meteorites---A New Source of Cosmic Material	47	(12)
R. M. Walker
Coronal Mass Ejection	59	(24)
J. T. Gosling
RAPPORTEUR PAPERS
Galactic Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere	83	(20)
R. A. Burger
Solar Energetic Particles: Acceleration and Transport	103	(17)
E. W. Cliver
Transient Phenomena in the Heliosphere and Terrestrial Effects	120	(20)
M. Storini
Anomalous Cosmic Rays and Solar Energetic Particle Composition	140	(13)
B. Klecker
Cosmic Ray Origin, Acceleration and Propagation	153	(16)
M. G. Baring
Galactic Cosmic Ray with Energy Less Than 1 TeV/amu	169	(11)
J. J. Beatty
The Cosmic Ray Measurements Above 1 TeV	180	(15)
S. Yoshida
Gamma Ray Astronomy	195	(30)
J. H. Buckley
Neutrinos and Muons	225	(22)
D. Kielczewska
High Energy Interactions and Extensive Air Showers	247	(18)
T. Stanev
HIGHLIGHT PAPERS
New Views of Solar Energetic Particles from the Advanced Composition Explorer	265	(9)
R. A. Mewaldt
Anomalous Cosmic Ray Composition from ACE	274	(9)
R. A. Leske
GeV Gamma Rays from Interaction of Flare Energetic Particles with Stellar Wind Matter	283	(6)
L. I. Dorman
Particle Acceleration by CME-Driven Shock Waves	289	(12)
D. V. Reames
Cosmic-Ray Isotopic Composition Results from the ACE Mission	301	(9)
M. E. Wiedenbeck
Trek and ECCO: Abundance Measurement of Ultraheavy Galactic Cosmic Rays	310	(7)
A. J. Westphal
Neutrinos from the Sun	317	(13)
R. Svoboda
Antiprotons and Other Results from BESS	330	(5)
M. Nozaki
AMS-01: First Flight, First Results; Future AMS-02	335	(16)
U. Becker
The Future of GeV-TeV γ-Ray Astrophysics: Highlights of ``Towards a Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope VI'' Workshop	351	(14)
B. L. Dingus
The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Observed by AGASA	365	(5)
M. Teshima
Results from the High Resolution Fly's Eye Experiment	370	(17)
C. C. H. Jui
DEDICATION TO PROFESSORS GAURANG B. YODH
Predictions of Proton-Air Cross Sections from Accelerator and Cosmic Ray Data	387	(20)
M. M. Block
Author Index	407