Strong flux of low-energy neutrons produced by thunderstorms

Strong flux of low-energy neutrons produced by thunderstorms

We report here for the first time about the registration of an extraordinary high flux of low-energy neutrons generated during thunderstorms. The measured neutron count rate enhancements are directly connected with thunderstorm discharges. The low-energy neutron flux value obtained in our work is a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2012-03, Vol.108 (12), p.125001-125001, Article 125001
Hauptverfasser: Gurevich, A V, Antonova, V P, Chubenko, A P, Karashtin, A N, Mitko, G G, Ptitsyn, M O, Ryabov, V A, Shepetov, A L, Shlyugaev, Yu V, Vildanova, L I, Zybin, K P
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Zusammenfassung:We report here for the first time about the registration of an extraordinary high flux of low-energy neutrons generated during thunderstorms. The measured neutron count rate enhancements are directly connected with thunderstorm discharges. The low-energy neutron flux value obtained in our work is a challenge for the photonuclear channel of neutron generation in thunderstorm: the estimated value of the needed high-energy γ-ray flux is about 3 orders of magnitude higher than that one observed.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.108.125001