The mini-neutron monitor: a new approach in neutron monitor design
- D. Strauss, S. Poluianov, R. Traversi
- Computer ScienceJournal of Space Weather and Space Climate
- 29 July 2020
The mini-NM offers the opportunity to increase the sensitivity and expand the coverage of the existing NM network, making this network more suitable to near-real-time monitoring for space weather applications.
Early Cosmic Ray Research with Balloons
- M. Walter
- Physics
- 1 June 2013
Mini neutron monitor measurements at the Neumayer III station and on the German research vessel Polarstern
- B. Heber, D. Galsdorf, H. Moraal
- Environmental Science
- 13 August 2015
Neutron monitors (NMs) are ground-based devices to measure the variation of cosmic ray intensities, and although being reliable they have two disadvantages: their size as well as their weight. As…
The International Cosmic Day – An Outreach Event for Astroparticle Physics
- M. Hutten, T. Karg, C. Schwerdt, C. Steppa, M. Walter
- Physics, Education
- 16 August 2017
The International Cosmic Day (ICD) is an astroparticle physics outreach event for high-school students and brings together students and different physics outreach projects from all over the world.…
CosMO - A Cosmic Muon Observer Experiment for Students
The experimental setup and possible measurements of the CosMO experiment (Cosmic Muon Observer) are presented, which are used within the German outreach network Netzwerk Teilchenwelt at 15 astroparticle-research institutes and universities for project work with students.
Early history of cosmic particle physics
- M. Walter, A. Wolfendale
- Physics
- 29 June 2012
The discovery of cosmic rays is a standard example of ‘one man’s noise is another man’s signal’. From the apparently minor leakages of electricity from well-insulated detectors came a subject of…
Cosmic@Web - Astroparticle learning platform for students
- S. Garrappa, F. Bradascio, M. Walter
- PhysicsInternational Conference on Rebooting Computing
- 22 July 2019
A number of simple experiments were developed at the DESY Zeuthen campus to provide high-school students with an opportunity to learn more about astroparticle physics, and are published on the Cosmic@Web learning platform, along with a range of online analysis tools and introductory material.
From the Discovery of Radioactivity to the First Accelerator Experiments
- M. Walter
- Physics
- 2012
The chapter reviews the historical phases of cosmic ray research from the very beginning around 1900 until the 1940s when first particle accelerators replaced cosmic particles as source for…
Students work like astroparticle physicists with Cosmic@Web
- Philipp Lindenau, C. Schwerdt, M. Walter
- Physics, EducationInternational Conference on Rebooting Computing
- 17 August 2021
Cosmic@Web is an online learning resource developed at DESY in Zeuthen, Germany as part of the outreach activities in the framework of Netzwerk Teilchenwelt . Via Cosmic@Web , high school and…
Early history of cosmic particle physics
- M. Walter, A. Wolfendale
- PhysicsThe European Physical Journal H
- 29 June 2012
The discovery of cosmic rays is a standard example of ‘one man’s noise is another man’s signal’. From the apparently minor leakages of electricity from well-insulated detectors came a subject of…
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