Maximum strength of the atmospheric electric field
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378289%3A_____%2F21%3A00540505" target="_blank" >RIV/68378289:_____/21:00540505 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.043021" target="_blank" >https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.043021</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.043021" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevD.103.043021</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Maximum strength of the atmospheric electric field
Original language description
Particle detectors of the European Space Environment Viewing and Analysis Network (SEVAN) network located on mountain peaks in Aragats (Armenia), Lomnicky Stit (Slovakia), and Musala (Bulgaria) are well suited for the detection of thunderstorm ground enhancements (TGEs). The modulation of charged particle flux by the electric field of the thundercloud results in a sizable change in the count rate of detectors, which measure fluxes of electrons, gamma rays, and high-energy muons. The relation between electric-field strength and changes of particle-flux count rates is nonlinear and depends on many unknown parameters of the atmospheric electric field and meteorological conditions. Nonetheless, employing tremendous TGEs as a manifestation of the strongest electric field in the thundercloud and by measuring fluxes of three species of secondary cosmic rays (electrons, gamma rays, and muons) by SEVAN detectors located at altitudes of approximately 3 km, we study the extreme strength of the atmospheric electric field. With the simulation of propagation of charged particles in a uniform electric field using the corsika code, we estimate the maximum potential difference in the thunderous atmosphere, which can reach approximately 500 MV.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review D
ISSN
2470-0010
e-ISSN
2470-0029
Volume of the periodical
103
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
043021
UT code for WoS article
000627569200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102066445