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Vertical Intensity of Cosmic Rays by Threefold Coincidences in the Stratosphere

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A YEAR ago we communicated the results of an ascent with a Geiger-Müller tube counter by registering balloons into the stratosphere to a height of 28 km.1. We found that the curve of the number of impulses obtained with the counter is identically the same as the intensity curve obtained with an ionisation chamber.

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REGENER, E., PFOTZER, G. Vertical Intensity of Cosmic Rays by Threefold Coincidences in the Stratosphere. Nature 136, 718–719 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136718a0

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