Speaker
Dr
Maria Rita Coluccia
(LE)
Description
The CORAM experiment is an outreach program carried on by researchers of the University of Salento and INFN Lecce in collaboration with several high schools of the Lecce region.
High School students and teachers are involved in the design, construction and test of a detector for the measurement of the cosmic ray flux as a function of the atmospheric depth.
The detector is made by scintillator layers readout by APDs (Avalanche Photo Diode) interleaved with iron absorbers and put into coincidence.
We present here the results of a test campaign using a first detector prototype that was carried at different altitudes up to 2100 m (Campo Imperatore, L’Aquila) and at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.
The experiment might also be host on a atmospheric balloon.
The INFN encouraged and supported this outreach activity by funding the detector and Data Acquisition System (DAQ).
Primary author
Dr
Maria Rita Coluccia
(LE)
Co-authors
Alessandro Corvaglia
(INFN Lecce)
Carlo Pinto
(Dip. di Matematica e Fisica Ennio de Giorgi Lecce)
Gianluigi Chiarello
(Dipartimento Ingegneria Lecce)
Ivan De Mitri
(Dip. di Matematica e Fisica Ennio de Giorgi Lecce)
Marco Panareo
(Dip. di Matematica e Fisica Ennio de Giorgi Lecce)
Pietro Creti
(INFN Lecce)
