Activities of University of Ferrara
Activities of University of Ferrara
An introduction to Cosmic Rays and its history
Although environmental radioactivity is all around us, the collective public imagination often associates a negative feeling to this natural phenomenon. To increase the familiarity with this phenomenon we have designed, implemented, and tested an interdisciplinary educational activity for pre-collegiate students in which nuclear engineering and computer science are ancillary to the comprehension of basic physics concepts.
The aim of this lab was the full characterization of a system for high energy cosmic ray detection.