A mobile application that detects ... cosmic rays

    I think many have heard of projects like SETI @ home or Einstein @ home . The bottom line is that you donate the computing time of your personal computers to the processing of certain scientific information. Even such a concept as civil science arose , which, however, is somewhat wider, and includes projects such as those presented on the Zooniverse portal , where you, and not your computer, are engaged in the processing of information. Some of these projects can be read, for example, here or including on Habré / GT.

    And now, these ideas have received a completely logical development. It is proposed to use your smartphone or tablet as a practically real scientific device. In this case, as a cosmic ray detector .

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    Particle showers generated by high-energy cosmic rays, according to the artist ( Simon Swordy, U. Chicago, NASA )

    The project is called CRAYFIS . The idea is to use a smartphone or tablet camera to detect the decay products of high-energy particles reaching the Earth. According to a study conducted by the authors of the application, a standard camera is able to detect the arrival of a high-energy photon or muon.

    Scientists evenThey promise to include your name in the list of co-authors of a scientific article , if the data from your smartphone will be used when writing it.

    The application is available for Android and iPhone, but is currently at the stage of closed beta testing, and is being distributed in limited quantities upon request.

    Source: PopSci

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