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Vestnik KRAUNC. Fiz.-Mat. Nauki, 2017 Number 4(20), Pages 28–34 (Mi vkam218)

ATMOSPHERE PHYSICS

The estimation of cosmic ray component contribution into the total $\beta$- and $\gamma$-background of atmosphere

A. S. Zelinskii, V. S. Yakovleva

National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia

Abstract: Simulation results of characteristics of atmospheric $\gamma$- and $\beta$-radiation fields, which are produced by primary cosmic rays when overcoming an Earth’s atmospheres, with using Geant4 are presented. Estimates of $\gamma$- and $\beta$-radiation flux density with energies of 50 keV-3 MeV formed in ground atmosphere by cosmic radiation are 33 and 1.5 m$^{-2}$; s$^{-1}$, approximately, that is significantly lower than that formed by soil and atmospheric radionuclides. It was received that the contribution of cosmic component into the total $\gamma$- and $\beta$-background of the ground atmosphere at the heights of about 50 m from the land surface is only about 0.06 % and 1.14 %, respectively. The barometric effect within various ranges of energies of photons and electrons was also investigated in the work.

Keywords: simulation, cosmic radiation, ionizing radiation, ground atmosphere, pressure, barometric effect, Geant4.

UDC: 551.521.6

MSC: 78A10

Received: 08.11.2017

DOI: 10.18454/2079-6641-2017-20-4-28-34



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