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HiSPARC

HiSPARC. Ilka Tánczos CRSP workshop 2006, Lisbon. Overview. Network status Funding Website (tools) Science objectives and activities Not about Electronics (Bob) Implementation at schools (Colle) Database (Bob). Status HiSPARC. Groningen : 4 detectors.

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HiSPARC

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  1. HiSPARC Ilka Tánczos CRSP workshop 2006, Lisbon

  2. Overview • Network status • Funding • Website (tools) • Science objectives and activities Not about • Electronics (Bob) • Implementation at schools (Colle) • Database (Bob)

  3. Status HiSPARC Groningen: 4detectors Difficult to keep detectors online. Amsterdam: 20detectors Leiden: 7 detectors Utrecht: 2 detectors Nijmegen: 9 detectors

  4. Funding • Official support from the NIKHEF, FOM and of the participating universities. • Funding from the ministry for education for development of material and support • Ad hoc sponsoring from foundations, companies etc.

  5. Teaching material • General courses • Mathematics • Material from Nebraska • All material available via website • Contributing to new Physics curriculum

  6. Website tools

  7. Studentsymposium

  8. Science • Systematic detector evaluation • Ph.D student • Objectives (random order): • Spectrum 10^16-10^19 • Simulations • Zatsepin -Gerasimova effect • Low energy part • Combination with radio antenna’s (Lopes set-up/LOFAR) • …..

  9. Zatsepin-Gerasimova effect • Correlated showers • Composition and origin • Typical distances 50-100 km(Medina-Tanco & Watson 1999) • Clustered set-up ideal • Need to improve density of the network

  10. (Euro Cosmics) Contacts • Material to Denmark (Hans Fynbo) • Quarknet • Material from CROP • Auger (Electronics)

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