An educational distributed Cosmic Ray detector network based on ArduSiPM

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The advent of high performance microcontrollers equipped with analog and digital peripherals, makes the design of a complete particle detector and a relative acquisition system on a single microcontroller chip possible. The existence of a world wide data infrastructure such as the internet, allows for the conception of a distributed network of cheap detectors able to elaborate and send data as well as to respond to setting commands. The internet infrastructure enables the distribution of the absolute time, with precision of a few milliseconds, to all devices independently of their physical location, when the sky view is accessible it possible to use a GPS module to reach synchronization of tens of nanoseconds. These devices can be far apart from each other and their relative distance can range from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. This allows for the design of a crowdsourcing experiment of citizen science, based on the use of many small scintillation-based particle detectors to monitor the high energetic cosmic ray and the radiation environment.

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Bocci, V., Chiodi, G., Fresch, P., Iacoangeli, F., & Recchia, L. (2017). An educational distributed Cosmic Ray detector network based on ArduSiPM. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 898). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/898/10/102011

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