A database of charged cosmic rays

By R. Taillet, D. Maurin, F. Melot. 2013

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Aims. This paper gives a description of a new online database and associated online tools (data selection, data export, plots, etc.) for charged cosmic-ray measurements. The experimental setups (type, flight dates, techniques) from which the data originate are included in the database, along with the references to all relevant publications. Methods. The database relies on the MySQL5 engine. The web pages and queries are based on PHP, AJAX and the jquery, jquery.cluetip, jquery-ui, and table-sorter third-party libraries. Results. In this first release, we restrict ourselves to Galactic cosmic rays with Z 30 and a kinetic energy per nucleon up to a few tens of TeV/n. This corresponds to more than 200 di erent sub-experiments (i.e., di erent experiments, or data from the same experiment flying at di erent times) in as many publications. Conclusions. We set up a cosmic-ray database (CRDB) and provide tools to sort and visualise the data. New data can be submitted, providing the community with a collaborative tool to archive past and future cosmic-ray measurements.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• The origin of galactic cosmic rays (2013, unknown): “2, which shows a collection of data points on the ratio of fluxes of boron and carbon, as obtained by using the data collection provided by the Cosmic Ray Database (Maurin et al. 2013).”