Introduction to Cosmic Rays

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Online work-book of a lecturing course.

The lectures were given thrice (with small redistribution of the material) in the spring semesters, 2003-2005 for postgraduates of Physics Department, Florence University (Sesto Fiorentino).

	During the semesters, several lectures (not included into the work-book) were given by
		Sergio Bottai (INFN, Sez. Firenze),
		Edgar Bugaev (INR, Moscow) and
		Dmitry Kazakov (JINR, Dubna).

I appreciate Anna Maria Cartacci, Alessandro Cuccoli and Piero Spillantini (Dipartimento di Fisica, Firenze) for continuous support of this course.

Introduction to Cosmic Rays

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This write-up (>450 slides) was prepared with the LaTeX package lucassem.cls. It is a conspectus of the main part of the course except for the first two lectures, a sketch of the UHECR problem and several movies. The on-screen quality of the postscript file is much better than that of the pdf file.

Lecture 1: Preface, Historical Background

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Lecture 2: Observational Data on Primary CR Spectrum

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Lectures 1 and 2 include many figures (a few of them are animated) and thus were prepared as Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations. The on-screen quality of the pdf files automatically converted from the ppt presentations is fair to middling but readable. Adobe® Reader®, version 7 is recommended (available from the Adobe web site at no cost).