The Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The number and density of schools in the Seattle area is convenient for the study of distributed particle showers produced at the top of the atmosphere by ultra-high energy (about eV) cosmic rays. We are forming a collaboration for the development of a distributed detector network to study air showers from such ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We call the cosmic ray measurement component WALTA (WAshington Large-area Time-coincidence Array). WALTA aims to provide teachers and students the opportunity to become active participants in forefront scientific projects. A cornerstone of the program will be to install a measurement module at each participating school.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9909268,
title = {The Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array},
author = {J. G. Cramer and S. R. Elliott and J. F. Wilkerson and R. J. Wilkes and E. Zager},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9909268},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure