1. Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: status and perspectives
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Góra, D., Cheminant, K. Almeida, Alvarez-Castillo, D., Bratek, Ł., Dhital, N., Duffy, A. R., Homola, P., Jagoda, P., Jałocha, J., Kasztelan, M., Kopański, K., Kovacs, P., Nazari, V., Niedźwiecki, M., Ostrogórski, D., Rzecki, K., Smołek, K., Stasielak, J., Sushchov, O., Woźniak, K. W., and Zamora-Saa, J.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - 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 overspread a significant fraction of the Earth, is a scientific terra incognita. Instead of developing and commissioning a completely new global detector infrastructure, CREDO proposes approaching the global cosmic-ray analysis objectives with all types of available detectors, from professional to pocket size, merged into a worldwide network. With such a network it is possible to search for evidences of correlated cosmic-ray ensembles. One of the observables that can be investigated in CREDO is a number of spatially isolated events collected in a small time window which could shed light on fundamental physics issues. The CREDO mission and strategy requires active engagement of a large number of participants, also non-experts, who will contribute to the project by using common electronic devices (e.g. smartphones). In this note the status and perspectives of the project is presented., Comment: This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018)
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- 2018
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