Cosmic Ray Detector - Data Center Guided Tour
So what can you do with all this data?
The Cosmic Ray detector at SLAC is an ongoing experiment that measures cosmic ray muons arriving at the earth's surface.
The tour stops noted below will take you step-by-step through four subjects. Please complete the tour stops in order, as they are interdependent. Also, if you haven't yet done so, now would be a good time read the introductions to solar and high energy cosmic rays and what happens to them in the earth's atmosphere, as well as the description of the SLAC cosmic ray detector.
Tour stops:
- Counting muons at different incident angles
- Flux: a detector-independent quantity
- Count rates at different altitudes: half-life and relativity
- A model for predicting count rates at different angles