Correlations between Background Radiation Inside a Multilayer Interleaving Structure, Geomagnetic Activity, and Cosmic Radiation: A Fourth-Order Cumulant-Based Correlation Analysis

Abstract

Time-series of background radiation (measured inside a multilayer structure), geomagnetic activity, and cosmic-ray activity has been analyzed using linear correlation analysis and a new correlation measure based on the one-dimensional component of the fourth-order cumulant. The new method is proposed based on the fact that the cumulant of a random process is zero if it is of Gaussian nature. The results show that this methodology is useful for detecting correlations between the analyzed time-series.

Keywords

• radioactive decay
• space weather
• geomagnetic activity
• cosmic-ray activity
• correlation analysis