Tag: Cosmic rays
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Espace Ballon – Hot Air Balloons Exhibition at Château-d’Oex (CH)
Exhibition on Hot Air Balloons connecting to the discovery of cosmic rays. It took place during the international balloon festival at Chateau-d’Oex in Swizerland.
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The FRONTIERS project
The FRONTIERS project aims to bring together research and educational institutions from all over Europe through the integration of Nobel Prize winning science in the school curriculum. Educational resources are provided through inquiry-based science learning organized into five stages : orienting & asking questions, hypothesis generation & design, planning & investigation, analysis & interpretation and…
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The “Fun-Q” muography project
Fun-Q is a high school students project of muography (muon tomography) of Japanese ancient mounds (Ko-Fun古墳) using Cosmic ray detector OSECHI (Outreach & Science Education Cosmic-ray Hunting Instrument). The collaborative project at the interface between education, physics and archaeology, promotes students’ understanding of interdisciplinarity and respect for different fields.
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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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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…