2003/05/12 by Evgueni Gouchtchine, Gouchtchine, Evgueni, Thomas P. McCauley +9
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0305208
To be published in the Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/icrc2003/
arxiv created 2003/05/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
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.