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Disintegration Processes by Cosmic Rays with the Simultaneous Emission of Several Heavy Particles

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ON photographic plates which had been exposed to cosmic radiation on the Hafelekar (2,300 m. above sea-level) near Innsbruck for five months, we found, apart from the very long tracks (up to 1,200 cm. in length) which have been reported recently in a note in the Wiener Akademie-Berichte, evidence of several processes described below.

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BLAU, M., WAMBACHER, H. Disintegration Processes by Cosmic Rays with the Simultaneous Emission of Several Heavy Particles. Nature 140, 585 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140585a0

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