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LiDAR Sensing of Aerosols Induced by Air Ions

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A strong correlation between the LiDAR aerosol backscattering signal and air ion concentration in an enclosed underground room is detected for the first time. Nowadays, air ions monitoring is considered to be the main tool in the search for earthquake precursors, and the revealed correlation opens interesting opportunities of using LiDARs in the search for precursors. LiDARs allow sensing the dynamics of aerosols generated by air ions as condensation nuclei on long tracks along the laser beam, compared to pointwise detection of air ions utilizing appropriate sensors.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to Yu.V. Sten’kin and L.A. Kuzmichev for assistance in experiments at the underground laboratory of the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 19-19-00712.

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  1. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    S. M. Pershin, V. A. Zavozin, V. N. Lednev, G. A. Boldin & M. Ya. Grishin

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, 115409, Moscow, Russia

    G. A. Boldin & V. V. Sinev

  3. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117133, Moscow, Russia

    V. S. Makarov

  4. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312, Moscow, Russia

    L. B. Bezrukov, A. K. Mezhokh & V. V. Sinev

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Pershin, S.M., Zavozin, V.A., Lednev, V.N. et al. LiDAR Sensing of Aerosols Induced by Air Ions. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 50, 559–565 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335623120138

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