CosmicWatch

20/11/2024

20/11/2024

24/09/2018

07/09/2018

The CosmicWatch team is preparing for the Near Space Conference 2018 http://nearspace.pl/
Two detectors will be sent in a high altitude balloon flight to measure cosmic rays produced in our atmosphere. Stay tuned for more news!

11/01/2018

New detector for New Year!
Now with microSD card and coincidence connection. Check out the details in our new paper available on arXiv:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03029.pdf

19/12/2017

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SensL has been a great supporter of the project. We really appreciate their expertise and help! Thank you SensL!

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27/11/2017

CosmicWatch is on the front page of reddit! :D I guess we are getting famous.. ;)

21/11/2017

Check out MIT News: http://news.mit.edu/2017/handheld-muon-detector-1121
Read interesting article about CosmicWatch project by Jennifer Chu. Enjoy!

21/11/2017

Paper describing first version of our muon detector was publish by American Journal of Physics, you can read more here: http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5003806

07/09/2017

Welcome to CosmicWatch project! it's a little device which can catch muons - small particles coming from the sky.
You can build it yourself - it's easy and inexpensive!
Find more about us on our website http://cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/

07/09/2017

And finally the current version of CosmicWatch detector. So small, easy to build, inexpensive, and so cute! ;)

02/09/2017