Nuclear Seminar - Piotr Homola (22.2.2017)
Wednesday 22.2.2017 at 14:00, Lecture room F1/364
prof. Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Krakow, Poland):
Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: new research possibilities in astroparticle physics
Abstract:
Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) enables a strategy for a global analysis of cosmic-ray data to reach the sensitivity to extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena, so-called super-preshowers, invisible for individual detectors or observatories. So far, the cosmic-ray research has been oriented on detecting single air showers only, while the search for ensembles of cosmic-ray events induced by super-preshowers is a scientific terra incognita. CREDO aims at exploring this uncharted realm.
Observation of super-preshowers would have an impact on ultra-high energy astrophysics, physics of fundamental particle interactions and cosmology.