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SCROD: School Cosmic Ray Outreach Detector

Evgueni Gouchtchine, Thomas P. McCauley, Yuri Musienko, Thomas C. Paul, Stephen Reucroft, John D. Swain

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0305208

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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