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About CRAYFIS
The CRAYFIS project is a novel approach to observing cosmic ray particles at the highest energies.
It uses the world-wide array of existing smartphones instead of building an expensive dedicated detector.
Cosmic Rays
When cosmic rays strike the atmosphere, they produce a huge number of lower-energy particles in an an extensive air shower, which can stretch to many kilometers across. The very high-energy cosmic rays produce the largest showers, but unfortunately they are also the rarest. Only a detector with large surface area can observe these mysterious particles.
The idea
The current state of the art is large-scale arrays of custom-designed dedicated detectors. To see the highest-energy cosmic rays, we need a very large detector array of exisiting commodity hardware: the smartphones in everyone’s pockets
Your phone is a detector
Modern smartphones contain high-resolution cameras with digital sensors which are sensitive to the particles in a cosmic ray shower. They know where they are (GPS) and can upload their data (wi-fi). Most importantly, there are 1.5 billion active smartphones spread across the planet. Essentially, this detector has already been deployed; all that is missing is the app to collect the data
The app
The CRAYFIS app operates in a manner similar to a screensaver. When the phone is connected to a power source and the screen goes to sleep, the app begins data-taking. No active participation is required on the part of the user after the initial download and installation.
The science
Read the paper.
Observing cosmic rays at higher energies and higher rates than ever before will let us:
- Explore the spectrum at world-record energies
- Study the origin of these mysterious particles
- Help us understand what cosmic object is accelerating them
Be an astrophysicist
In addition to learning about astrophysics, you get to actually be an astrophysicist, by joining our collaboration and expanding our detector. Anyone whose phone collects enough data has the option to be made an author of at least one scientific paper.