The QuarkNet Online Cosmic Ray Detector

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Background - Data - How it Works - Index - Other Sites

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CROP involves Nebraska high school students, teachers, and college undergraduates in a multifaceted, hands-on research effort to study extended cosmic-ray air showers.

The Pierre Auger Observatory is an international effort to study the highest energy cosmic rays.

SLAC's Cosmic Ray Detector is another online device that allows data downloads.

The University of Illinois-Chicago QuarkNet center also provides data from one of these detectors. Click on one of the runs to see nice plots of the results from that run.

WALTA is a project to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays with the participation of middle and high school students and teachers throughout the Seattle area.

We are working with both the WALTA and CROP groups to design and build a new classroom cosmic ray detector. The three groups, CROP, QuarkNet and WALTA are each testing a prototype of the detector in the summer of 2002. Check back here for more information on the device.