On a Difference Equation Method in Cosmic-Ray Shower Theory
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- 15 November 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 80 (4) , 611-615
Abstract
The recent results of Synder and Bhabha-Chakrabarty for the cascade theory of cosmic-ray showers are shown to be devirable from a general approach involving the use of the Laplace and Mellin transforms, and a general and powerful method, due to Synder, for solving the resulting difference equations. Boundary conditions are introduced in a natural and automatic way, and the accuracy of the solution is limited by the possible ways of evaluating the resulting triple complex integral.Keywords
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