SCROD: School Cosmic Ray Outreach Detector
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We report progress on applying technologies developed for LHC-era experiments to cosmic ray detection, using scintillating tiles with embedded wavelength-shifting fibers and avalanche photodiode readouts as parts of a robust, inexpensive cosmic air shower detector. We are planning to deploy such detectors in high schools as part of an outreach effort able to search for long-distance correlations between airshowers.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0305208,
title = {SCROD: School Cosmic Ray Outreach Detector},
author = {Evgueni Gouchtchine and Thomas P. McCauley and Yuri Musienko and Thomas C. Paul and Stephen Reucroft and John D. Swain},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0305208},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To be published in the Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/icrc2003/