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The intensity of cosmic ray radiation decreases rapidly with increasing energy, but there are occasionally extremely energetic cosmic rays that create a shower of radiation from all the particles they create by striking a
nucleus in the atmosphere as seen in the figure given below. Suppose a cosmic ray particle having an energy of 10¹⁰ GeV converts its energy into particles with masses averaging 200 MeV/c² . (a) How many particles are created? (b) If the particles rain down on a 1.00-km² area, how many particles are there per square meter?

Extremely
energetic
cosmic ray
Atmosphere
Earth's surface
Figure 33.27 An extremely energetic cosmic ray creates a
shower of particles on earth. The energy of these rare cosmic
rays can approach a joule (about 1010 GeV) and, after
multiple collisions, huge numbers of particles are created
from this energy. Cosmic ray showers have been observed to
extend over many square kilometers.

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