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Particles of albedo radiation are the particles born in interactions of primary cosmic rays penetrating inside Earth’s atmosphere and magnetosphere and the atmosphere nuclei. These interactions result in so-called particle showers and the detection of these showers is the essence of work for ground-based cosmic-ray detectors such as neutron monitors, muon hodoscopes and EAS arrays. Some products of these interactions undergoing by scattering and having the curve paths in geomagnetic field propagate upwards to the boundary of Earth’s magnetosphere. These particles are called albedo particles. The principle of their identification is simple. They are registered in geomagnetic zones where the penetration of low-energy galactic or solar cosmic rays is restricted due to Earth’s magnetic field. The results of measurements of albedo protons, deuterons, electrons and positrons has been already published by PAMELA collaboration. In this work the first approach to search for the albedo tritium nuclei with energies above 100 MeV/nucleon is described.
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This work was supported by the grant no. MK-6160.2018.2 of the President of the Russian Federation and MEPhI Academic Excellence Project (contract 02.a03.21.0005) as well as Ministry of Science and Higher Education RF.
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Koldobskiy, S.A., Voronov, S.A. Search for Albedo Tritium with PAMELA Experiment. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 82, 744–746 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377881966030X
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