Small shower array for education purposes -the CREDO-Maze Project.

Abstract

We have noticed in many places around the world in recent years an increasing interest in smallscale extensive air shower experiments designed to satisfy young people's scientific curiosity and develop their interest in science and in physics in particular. It is difficult to think of ways and opportunities to introduce practical classes in modern high-energy physics, astrophysics, or particle physics into school curricula and after-school activities. Small EAS array experiments are just such a proposal. As part of the CREDO-Maze project, we plan to equip local high schools with sets of four small detectors, with a simple system for triggering, recording, and online communication with the world. Networked experiments from several schools add significant new educational value to the process of developing good behavior appropriate to scientific communities. Cooperation and competition at the stage of own research and information exchange are essential new and valuable values in educating young generation. Small local arrays connected to the global CREDO network will provide additional data and opportunities for important cosmic ray studies, what is an additional benefit of the CREDO-Maze Project. In this paper we will present the characteristics of our prototype detector.

Small shower CORSIKA simulations

“…In several countries, attempts are being made to introduce such projects in schools to stimulate interest in cosmic ray physics. In some countries, this endeavor has already been achieved on a smaller or larger scale, for example, the High School Project on Astrophysics Research with Cosmics (HiSPARC) [2] in the Netherlands, as well as WALTA [3], NALTA, ALTA [4], SALTA, CZELTA [5], SKALTA, CHICOS [6], CROP, CosMO [7], or Maze [8][9][10]. In several centers, work is in progress on the construction stage of prototypes or the research and development stage.…”

CREDO-Maze Cosmic Ray Mini-Array for Educational Purposes

“…A description of preliminary work on the detector and a concept for its construction with two optical fibers and SiPMs working in coincidence was presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Berlin 2021 [15].…”

On the Search for Potentially Anomalous Traces of Cosmic Ray Particles in Images Acquired by Cmos Detectors for a Continuous Stream of Emerging Observational Data

“…The project is conducting advanced research on detection and classification of particle types based on deep learning models [ 82 ]. CREDO project uses smartphone-based detectors and additionally integrates data from other sources such as simple scintillation detectors [ 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 ]. The data collected by the CREDO project is stored in open repositories and are available for scientific purposes.…”