Objective
The International Cosmic Ray Conference is held every two years under the auspices of the commission C4 on "cosmic rays" of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). The last four conferences were held in Salt Lake City, USA (1999), Durban, South Africa (1997), Rome, Italy (1995) and Calgary, Canada (1993). The next 21th International Cosmic Ray Conference will take place in Hamburg, Germany, from August 7-15, 2001. The scope of the International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) covers all aspects of cosmic ray research. Cosmic radiation has been defined as extraterrestrial charged particle radiation, i.e. it consists of a flux of electrons, positrons and nucleons with kinetic energies greater than 1000 eV that bombards the Earth from outside. With the technical capability of flying balloons high in the Earth atmosphere and launching satellites into extraterretrial space carrying lightweighted solid-state particle detectors, which was achieved after World War II, the original ground-based cosmic ray airshower experiments were supplemented by insitu measurements of the cosmic ray flux in interplanetary space. Today, detectors on board of spacecraft routinely provide spatia and temporal information on the particle energy spectra throughout the heliosphere.
Besides the cosmic rays accelerated on our Sun and the planets, there is a strong component that originates in more distant astrophysical objects, located both in our own Galaxy and in extragalactic objects. The solar component has profound influence on the Earth atmosphere and magnetosphere ("space weather") with sometimes disturbing influences on the terrestrial communication technology. The origin of the galactic component has close connections to astronomy and astrophysics because it is responsible for many nonthermal radiation processes that dominate the spectral appearance of astronomical objects as supernova remnants, quasars and active galactic nuclei which are prime sources for modern.day astrophysics. Historically, X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy and neutrino astronomy have emerged out of the original cosmic ray research. Today, cosmic ray research is regarded as one of the main branches of particle astrophysics. Due to its broad scientific scope, cosmic ray research is a truely interdisciplinary subject where physicists from the areas of high.energy nuclear physics, plasma physics, astrophysics, aeronomy, gravitation and cosmology join their efforts. Only by their combined research significant progress in this field can be achieved.
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Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy galactic astronomy solar physics
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy observational astronomy gamma-ray astronomy
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy observational astronomy x-ray astronomy
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy astrophysics
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy stellar astronomy supernova
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