The Distribution of Time Intervals Between Cosmic Ray Showers ? A Study of the Randomness of Cosmic Ray Arrival Times

Abstract

It has recently been reported that cosmic ray showers arrive in an appreciably nonrandom manner with an excessive number of short time intervals between showers. We have investigated the distribution of time intervals between showers of size Ne ;;:; 105 and find that if there is any excess of short intervals it must be ;S 5 %.