Analysis of capability of detection of extensive air showers by simple scintillator detectors

Abstract: One of the main objectives of the CREDO project is to search for Cosmic-Ray Ensembles (CRE) which may appear if some number of high energy cosmic-ray particles of a common origin enter the Earth’s atmosphere at approximately the same time. To confirm the existence of such phenomena a massive scale observation of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) in a very wide energy spectrum and an analysis of their time correlations must be performed. To make such observations possible, an infrastructure of widely spread detectors connected in a global network should be developed. Knowing the characteristics of EAS from more general simulations, probability of cascade detection for certain system can be calculated. In this work results from several versions of calculations, with different complexity level, are presented and compared with the first measurement performed with a test detector system. These results con- firm that majority of events observed with a this small detector array are caused by cosmic-ray particles with very high energies.

Polishartificial intelligencequantum computing and informationhigh energy physicsnuclear physicscomputational physics

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Computer Physics and Quantum Informatics Seminar

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