Category: Topic:Universe
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Cosmic Piano: analysing the sound of the Universe
The Cosmic Piano is an innovative outreach tool designed to detect muons from air showers produced by cosmic rays colliding with the atmosphere. It consists of scintillator-based modules with avalanche photodiodes (APD) readout, which produce a musical note and a flash of light whenever a muon passes through one of them and triggers its electronics.…
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Exographer, a videogame based on particle physics
Exographer is an exploration game based on particle physics. In Exographer, players use gluonic boots or a photon sphere to overcome obstacles while discovering, one by one, all the elementary particles of the Standard Model. The levels are inspired by real laboratories (giant colliders and detectors, neutrino underground facilities, cosmic ray observatories…). A lost civilization…
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Accel Kitchen: Japanese Junior and Senior High School Cosmic Ray Outreach
The Accel Kitchen is a hands-on particle physics research experience for junior and senior high school students founded in 2020. It takes the form of a mentorship program with remote mentoring, making it the largest junior and senior high school particle physics research support network in Japan. The program provides inexpensive and easy-to-use particle detectors…
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How Nuclear Astrophysics Masterclasses can benefit from Gamification Elements
The newly developed Nuclear Astrophysics masterclass includes some gamified elements like puzzle, card game and board game in which game rules are inspired by physics.
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National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip
The National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip is a travelling science show. During the Australian national science week, a dedicated team of scientists and science communicators travel to Schools and public spaces to take science around Australian Communities. In total, the road-tripping team drive more than 8,000 kilometres over two weeks, while delivering presentations,…
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Deck of Playing Cards about Fundamental Physics
The project is a deck of 54 poker size playing cards where each card explains one subject. Every suit corresponds to a physics branch, featuring numbers for crucial phenomena, court cards for major physicists, and aces for fundamental concepts.
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Cosmic rays activities at CENTRO Fermi
The Centro Fermi organize various outreach events: Cosmic Box Contest : Contest between schools of cosmic ray flux analysis, PolarquEEEst project : Installation of 3 POLA detectors in Svalbard, and Broadcast of the event, Opening of the Museo Fermi in Rome, Data alanysis of EEE data during the International Cosmic Day
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Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) Project
The project tests a theory suggesting dark matter may consist of supermassive particles from the early Universe. Their decay should ultimately result in a large so called super-preshowers of photons, widely distributed across both space (an area larger than the Earth) and time (reaching different parts of the Earth at different times). CREDO make use…