Los Alamos National Laboratory: Using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Bursts to Understand Gamma-Ray Bursts From Lightning
April 29, 2021
April 29, 2021
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release:
Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like - by observing neutrons generated from soil by very large cosmic-ray showers. The work took place at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Cosmic Ray Observatory in Mexico.
Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like - by observing neutrons generated from soil by very large cosmic-ray showers. The work took place at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Cosmic Ray Observatory in Mexico.