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CZEch Large-area Time coincidence Array (CZELTA)

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Petr Beneš, Karel Smolek
CZELTA – základní přehled a popis technického vybavení
(Project CZELTA – basic overview and hardware)

information reported in coordinational meeting of the CZELTA project in Pardubice, April 4, 2007

The aim of the project is the fundamental research of high energy cosmic rays. Besides the scientific purpose, the project has also educational impact. Within the project, the network of detection stations of secondary cosmic rays showers is built. These stations are built mostly on the roofs of selected high schools in the Czech Republic. Similarly to other projects in the European Union, Canada and the United States, students of Czech high schools actively participate in this project - it contributes to improve and to make atractive their education of natural and technical sciences. The project started on summer 2004 with collaboration of University of Alberta (Canada), which realizes parallel project ALTA (NALTA).

On the roof of our building, we built the first station for the detection of high energy cosmic ray showers. The equipment consists of three scintilators placed on the roof with the electronic data aquisition system indoors.

Detector part of the CZELTA station in our institute:

Read-out system:

Other CZELTA stations:

• The second station was installed on the roof of the Faculty of Philosophy and Science of the Silesian University in Opava.
• At present, next two stations are installed: Gymnázium (high school) in Pardubice and Mendel's gymnázium (high school) in Opava.

Presentations, publications:

• M. Nyklíček, K. Smolek: Detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays and Project CZELTA, Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine - Third Intern. Summer Student School (Dubna, June 30-July 11, 2005), proceedings p.103-108.

• K. Smolek, P. Beneš, S. Pospíšil, I. Štekl: Projekt detekce kosmického záření a střední školy v ČR (Project of detection of cosmic rays and high schools in the Czech Republic), Veletrh nápadů učitelů fyziky 10 (Fair of hits of teachers in physics 10), Praha (Prague), 26. srpna (August) 2005, presentation, proceedings p. 162-165.

• K. Smolek, P. Beneš, S. Pospíšil, J. Smejkal, I. Štekl: Detekce kosmického záření a střední školy v ČR (Detection of cosmic rays and high schools in the Czech Republic), Veletrh nápadů učitelů fyziky 11 (Fair of hits of teachers in physics 10), Olomouc, 29. srpna (August) 2006, presentation, proceedings.

• M. Nyklíček: Detekční techniky užívané při studiu vysokoenergetického kosmického záření (Detection technics used in high energy cosmic rays research) , search literature student-work.