• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1078940
Corpus ID: 31926167

Energetic Radiation Produced During Rocket-Triggered Lightning

@article{Dwyer2003EnergeticRP,
  title={Energetic Radiation Produced During Rocket-Triggered Lightning},
  author={J. Dwyer and M. A. Uman and H. Rassoul and M. Al-Dayeh and L. Caraway and J. Jerauld and V. Rakov and Douglas M. Jordan and Keith J. Rambo and V. Corbin and B. Wright},
  journal={Science},
  year={2003},
  volume={299},
  pages={694 - 697}
}

J. Dwyer, M. A. Uman, +8 authors B. Wright

Published 2003

Physics, Medicine

Science

Using a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector designed to operate in electrically noisy environments, we observed intense bursts of energetic radiation (≫10 kiloelectron volts) during the dart leader phase of rocket-triggered lightning, just before and possibly at the very start of 31 out of the 37 return strokes measured. The bursts had typical durations of less than 100 microseconds and deposited many tens of megaelectron volts into the detector. These results provide strong evidence that the… CONTINUE READING

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