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Published February 15, 1949 | public
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Note on the east-west effect

Abstract

In a recent flight to Peru in a B-29, continuous measurements were made at 3.10 equivalent meters of water barometric pressure (approximately 30,000 feet) of the intensity of cosmic-ray particles at the zenith, 45° west and 45° east.

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©1949 The American Physical Society. Received 27 December 1948. We wish to thank the Office of Naval Research for making these flights possible. We also wish to extend our appreciation to Major W. A. Gustafson and his men of the Air Forces for their cooperation and skillful handling of the plane.

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