Did the 28 October 2003 solar flare accelerate protons to 20GeV? A study of the subsequent Forbush decrease with the GRAPES-3 tracking muon telescope

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Nonaka, T ^a   Hayashi, Y ^a   Ito, N ^a   Kawakami, S ^a   Matsuyama, T ^a   Oshima, A ^a   Tanaka, H ^a   Yoshikoshi, T ^a   Gupta, S K ^b   Jain, A ^b   Karthikeyan, S ^b   Mohanty, P K ^b   Morris, S D ^b   Rao, B S ^b   Ravindran, K C ^b   Sivaprasad, K ^b   Sreekantan, B V ^b   Tonwar, S C ^b   Viswanathan, K ^b   Kojima, H ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c NAGOYA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33748804671     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.052003     Document Type: Article

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