2021-06-21

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Every second of every day thousand of cosmic rays pass through you, but we normally never notice. These particles are the result of high energy collisions in the upper atmosphere called air showers that are the result of some of the most extreme events in the universe flinging particles through deep space. Today we detect and measure these amazing particles and see how they can be used to directly test special relativity, catch smugglers and even find hidden passages in Egyptian tombs.

Extra reading/videos:

Source paper -https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275467414_Special_relativity_in_the_school_laboratory_A_simple_apparatus_for_cosmic-ray_muon_detection

*Pair production and antimatter (this is the one I built the detector in) - /youtube/video/K16uPl6_S7A *

Gamma ray spectroscopy - /youtube/video/C7TwBUxxIC0

Muons could break the standard model - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ko7NW2yQo

Air showers - https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/MATHUSLA/MATHUSLAPublic/cosmic-ray-physics_MATHUSLA.pdf

Hadronization - https://indico.cern.ch/event/314801/contributions/1688594/attachments/603731/830823/Jet_WS_2014_RJF.pdf

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