MARIACHI

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For the type of musical group, see Mariachi.

MARIACHI, the Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Cosmic-rays of High Ionization, is an apparatus for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) via bi-static radar using VHF transmitters. MARIACHI is also the name of the research project at Brookhaven National Laboratory operating the apparatus. The apparatus is located on Long Island.

Its inventors the MARIACHI apparatus hope that it will detect UHECR over much larger areas than possible with prior detection apparatuses, and that it will also detect ultra high energy neutrino flux. The ground array detectors are scintillator arrays that are built and operated by high school students and teachers.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Takai, Helio (2006-04-26). "MARIACHI — Detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with radar". American Physical Society, APS April Meeting, April 22–26, 2006. 

[edit] Further reading

• Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Cosmic-rays of High Ionization. Stony Brook University.
• James Pinfold. "A cosmic vision for world science", CERN Courier, IOP Publishing Ltd. 

[edit] External links

• Implementation of ground-based scintillation detectors as a tool for studying cosmic ray activity- Matthew Lucia, University of Notre Dame; Matthew Captaine, St. Norbert College; Dima Vavilov, Michael Marx, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University