(ORDO NEWS) — Citizen science projects offer the general public and its segments, such as schoolchildren, the opportunity to take part in scientific research.
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) project in Italy is a collaboration between cosmic ray particle physicists, schoolchildren and their teachers across the country.
EEE has two goals: to bring cosmic ray research into schools and to establish an “open laboratory” of particle detectors across the country.
One of the lead researchers of the EEE project consortium, Silvia Pisano from the Fermi Center in Italy.
Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. When they come into contact with the Earth‘s atmosphere, they produce many secondary particles.
A single primary cosmic ray can produce a particle stream that completely covers a city the size of, say, Bologna.
The EEE network consists of approximately 60 detectors located throughout Italy, mainly in secondary schools.
Students and their teachers are involved in all aspects of the project: installing and maintaining equipment, collecting and analyzing data, and disseminating results.
Another ongoing development is a detector gas mixture that will replace the potent greenhouse gas tetrafluoroethane. Schoolchildren participate in this and other improvements.
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