Cosmogenic nuclide

Cosmogenic nuclides are nuclides resulting from reactions of cosmic ray particles with atomic nuclei. These reactions are mainly so-called spallation. In the nuclear spallation of the atomic nucleus with a projectile ( neutron, proton, another core or an elementary particle in each of the cosmic rays ) shot at high kinetic energy (> 10 MeV). The nucleus is thereby shattered several neutrons into smaller fragments and generally. When the fragments ( cosmogenic nuclides ) can be any nuclide mass number smaller than the Targetnuklids in principle.

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