Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: Status and perspectives of a global cosmic ray detection framework
Abstract
The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project dedicated to global studies of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena, the cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE), beyond the capabilities of existing detectors and observatories. Up to date cosmic-ray research has been focused on detecting single air showers, while the search for ensembles of cosmic-rays, which may spread over a significant fraction of the Earth, is a scientific terra incognita. The key idea of CREDO is to combine existing cosmic-ray detectors (large professional arrays, educational instruments, individual detectors, such as smartphones, etc.) into a worldwide network, thus enabling a global analysis. The second goal of CREDO involves a large number of participants (citizen science!), assuring the geographical spread of the detectors and managing manpower necessary to deal with vast amount of data to search for evidence for cosmic-ray ensembles. In this paper the status and perspectives of the project are presented.
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@article{arxiv.1908.04139,
title = {Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: Status and perspectives of a global cosmic ray detection framework},
author = {Dariusz Gora and Kevin Almeida Cheminant and David E. Alvarez Castillo and Dmitriy Beznosko and Niraj Dhital and Alan R. Duffy and Piotr Homola and Konrad Kopanski and Peter Kovacs and Marta Marek and Alona Mozgova and Vahab Nazari and Michal Niedzwiecki and Wojciech Noga and Katarzyna Smelcerz and Karel Smolek and Jaroslaw Stasielak and Oleksandr Sushchov and Dominik Ostrogorski and Krzysztof Rzecki and Krzysztof W. Wozniak and Jilberto Zamora-Saa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04139},
year = {2019}
}
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Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference - ICRC2019 - July 24th - August 1st, 2019 Madison, WI, U.S.A