Cosmic Rays

Cosmic Watch: Initial Cost Estimate

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CosmicWatch is a small, inexpensive, home-built (or lab-built) cosmic ray detector designed by the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT.     I’ve set out to build one, and this is Episode 2 of the adventure. The claim is that “single detector costs approximately 100 USD”,1 though I learned later that this estimate does not include […]

CosmicWatch Project, Episode 1: Getting Started

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CosmicWatch is an inexpensive “home-built” cosmic ray detector designed by physicists at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT.   You can read more about it here: http://cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/about The claim is that a college student can build one of these as a project for about $100 in about 4 hours1.    I’m skeptical, but it’s an interesting idea, […]