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Electromagnetic processes at high energies

Part I. — Anomalous showers

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

Summary

The problem of anomalous showers has been discussed with a view to compare their fluctuations with those for two other samples of electromagnetic cascades. It is concluded that the observed discrepancies result on account of the individuality of the events and that the fluctuations are similar to those for normal cascades. In general the fluctuations are found to be not very much larger than those for a Poisson distribution.

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È stato discusso il problema degli sciami anomali allo scopo di mettere a raffronto le fluttuazioni degli sciami stessi con quelle di due altri tipi di cascate elettromagnetiche. Si conclude che le discrepanze osservate sono dovute alla individualità degli eventi, e che le fluttuazioni sono simili a quelle delle normali cascate. Si trova che, in linea generale, le fluttuazioni sono molto più ampie di quelle dovute a una distribuzione di Poisson.

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Aditya, P.K. Electromagnetic processes at high energies. Nuovo Cim 13, 1013–1025 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02724829

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