Cosmic Rays Observed by the Resonant Gravitational Wave Detector NAUTILUS
- 3 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (1) , 14-17
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.14
Abstract
The passage of cosmic rays has been observed to excite mechanical vibrations in the resonant gravitational wave detector NAUTILUS operating at temperature of 100 mK. A very significant correlation (more than 10 standard deviations) is found.Keywords
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