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This month’s lecture:  

CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Summary :  
The California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory (CHICOS) project is a research array for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — single subatomic particles that slam into Earth’s atmosphere with the energy of a brick falling from a rooftop. The particles produce huge showers of secondary particles when they collide with atomic nuclei in the upper atmosphere. In the CHICOS project, schools across the Los Angeles area provide a network of detector sites and a valuable population of participating teachers and students.
Speaker :   Dr. Robert McKeown
Physicist, California Institute of Technology
Location:   Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7p.m.

The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
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    Friday, December 7, 2007, 7p.m.

The Vosloh Forum at Pasadena City College
1570 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
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Webcast:
 

CHICOS: Detecting Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Archived Webcasts:

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