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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Góra, Dariusz
• Kevin Almeida Cheminant
• Alvarez-Castillo, David
• Bratek, Łukasz
• Dhital, Niraj
• Duffy, Alan R
• Homola, Piotr
• Jagoda, Pawel
• Jałocha, Joanna
• Kasztelan, Marcin
• Kopański, Konrad
• Kovacs, Peter
• Nazari, Vahab
• Niedźwiecki, Michal
• Ostrogórski, Dominik
• Smołek, Karel
• Stasielak, Jaroslaw
• Sushchov, Oleksander
• Woźniak, Krzysztof W
• Zamora-Saa, Jilberto

Titel

Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: Status and Perspectives

Ist Teil von

• Universe (Basel), 2018-11, Vol.4 (11), p.111

Ort / Verlag

Basel: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 are presented.