The Southern Ontario Large-Scale Time-Coincidence Array Project
The old website – not maintained since 2016
Cosmic Ray Outreach Efforts Worldwide
- High schools focus on the extreme universe – 2006 CERN Courier article by Jim Pinfold
- VICTA – Vancouver Island Cosmic-ray Time-coincidence Array – talk
- QuarkNet – Cosmic Ray e-Lab-Development – Fermilab, USA
- Cosmic Connection – Berkeley, USA
- HiSPARC – Holland
Fluorescence for high school students – July, 2012 - The EEE Project: a sparse array of telescopes for the measurement of cosmic ray muons – Italy and CERN
A simulation tool for MRPC telescopes of the EEE project – May, 2020 - Sky-View – Wuppertal, Germany
- Cosmic ray detectors for high schools in France – 2016
- CZELTA – Czech Republic
- HeLyCON – Greece
- Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays – U. Pittsburgh
- SKALTA 2011 – Slovaki
- CHICOS – California, USA
- Projects that I believe are no longer operational
- Old QuarkNet Stuff – Users Manual 2003, DAQ card Intro 2003, Low-Cost Data Acquisition Card for School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors
- ALTA – Alberta, ALTA electronics 2004
- Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array (Wikipedia), WALTA – Washington state, USA
- WALTA school-network cosmic ray detectors – November, 2003
- GPS Time Synchronization in School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors – November, 2003
- SALTA – Colorado, USA
- CROP – Nebraska, USA
- The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project: A Statewide Outreach and Education Experiment in Nebraska – July, 2007
- SCROD: School Cosmic Ray Outreach Detector, School Cosmic Ray Outreach Detector (SCROD)
Related Papers and Articles
- Capturing Cosmic Ray Research and Researchers with Art –
- The CosmicWatch Desktop Muon Detector: a self-contained, pocket sized particle detector – March, 2018
- The International Cosmic Day – An Outreach Event for Astroparticle Physics – November, 2017
- A demonstration device for cosmic rays telescopes – August, 2017
- High energy astroparticle physics for high school students – August, 2015
- A simple technique for gamma ray and cosmic ray spectroscopy using plastic scintillator – April, 2015
- DIY particle physics – April, 2015
- Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones – October, 2014
- Track fitting by Kalman Filter method for a prototype cosmic ray muon detector – October, 2014
- A general detector testing system using cosmic rays – August, 2013
- Learning to Build a Cosmic Ray Detector – July, 2012
- Users Manual 2010 (QuarkNet board)
- Cosmic rays studied with a hybrid high school detector array – September, 2008
Some Cosmic Ray Physics
- Some History
- September 15, 1910: Theodor Wulf Publishes First Evidence of Cosmic Radiation
- April 17, 1912: Victor Hess’s balloon flight during total eclipse to measure cosmic rays
- February 6, 1970: Luis Alvarez’s Paper in Science on Cosmic Rays and Pyramids
Life beyond the Nobel: how Luis Alvarez deduced the disappearance of the dinosaurs
- Muons unveiled new details about a void in Egypt’s Great Pyramid – March, 2023
- Nuclear reactor reconstructed in 3D using muon imaging,
Using muon detectors to remotely create a 3D image of the inside of a nuclear reactor – February, 2023 - Muon scanning hints at mysteries within an ancient Chinese wall – January, 2023
- Cosmic-ray muons used to create cryptography system – January, 2023
- Cosmic muons probe the interiors of tropical cyclones – October, 2022
- Cosmic rays may be key to understanding galactic dynamics – August, 2021
- Cosmic rays threaten Martian agriculture – August, 2021
- Cosmic-ray threat to quantum computing greater than previously thought – July, 2021
- Pulsar Halo Hints at Slow Diffusion of Cosmic Rays – June, 2021
- Probing deeper into origins of cosmic rays – May, 2021
- Most precise measurements of cosmic ray proton and helium spectra above TeV – May, 2021
- Confirming a Cosmic-Ray Bump – May, 2021
- Highest ever energy light captured by Chinese mountain observatory – May, 2021
- Prototype detector uses cosmic muons to scan shipping containers – February, 2021
- Cosmic-Ray Time Capsules, A possible way to measure ancient rate of cosmic ray strikes using ‘paleo-detectors’ – December, 2020
- Quantum computers may be heading underground to shield from cosmic rays, Cosmic rays may soon stymie quantum computing – August, 2020
- Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA – June, 2020
- New Data Reveal the Heavy Side of Cosmic Rays – May, 2020
- Muons: probing the depths of nuclear waste – January, 2020
- Muons Reveal Record-Breaking Thunderstorm Voltage – March, 2019
- Cosmic rays continue to confound – December, 2016
- What is AMS telling us? – December, 2016
- GRAPES-3 indicates a crack in Earth’s magnetic shield – November, 2016
- Cosmic-Ray Showers Reveal Muon Mystery, Cosmic-ray showers create more muons than expected – October, 2016
- Can physics reveal the secrets of Egypt’s pyramids? – October, 2015
- Particle-physics lab beneath a Mexican pyramid – May, 2015
- Perturbations to aquatic photosynthesis due to high-energy cosmic ray induced muon flux in the extragalactic shock model – September, 2013
- Muon tomography imaging algorithms for nuclear threat detection inside large volume containers with the Muon Portal detector – July, 2013
- Chephren pyramid: Finding something in finding nothing – March, 2013
- Looking at volcanoes with cosmic-ray muons – December, 2012