1st CREDO Visegrad Workshop 2024

Sonification has a long history in the space sciences. The technological advancements brought it to pass from being on the forefront to behind the scenes in space sciences. Despite the sciences and mathematics continue facing challenges to avoid estationarization and linearisation of the changes/data/telemetry acquired. In this presentation I will talk about some aspects sonification may...

Within the vast field of Astrophysics, the study of variable stars is
expansive and inclusive. Groundbreaking discoveries can be made with
modest instrumentation and small telescopes, also by amateurs, and
treasure troves of new unexplored data are available to the scientific
community and the public. Therefore, this field lends itself perfectly
to involving more people in astronomical...

The nature of quantum states of light is inherently governed by the
Heisenberg uncertainty principle, leading to the presence of zero-point
energy. A squeezed vacuum state emerges as a reshaped fluctuation of
this zero-point energy. To characterize and comprehend a squeezed
vacuum, the utilization of a bright field becomes pivotal. This bright
field not only amplifies the squeezed vacuum...

Due to the limited sensibility of vision, astronomers usually only “look at” computer purified data sets. Auditory and tactile means provide brand-new ways for us to examine the sky. Inspired by Harvard Astronomy Lab and Clay Telescope’s Orchestar (color arduino), we present the proof of concept of a very sensitive yet simple device to transfer color into sounds and haptic motion built by...

The search for the unseen matter will persist as desirable as a pinnacle discovery for
humankind. The opportunity about the ethereal richness of the information composing the universe is not a delusion, but a disposition of curiosity although seemingly without an answer up to this date. The infinity of suspicions whether dark matter is (un)real do not rest on anticlimactic futility of knowing...

Solar eclipses are profound experiences. LightSound is a sonification
tool designed for solar eclipses. The device converts light to sound for
blind, low-vision, or non-visual learners as a way to observe solar
eclipses through sound. The LightSound team is building 750+ devices to
be donated for the upcoming April 2024 total solar eclipse. I will
provide an update on the project and...

Accurately decomposing the data into its many oscillation modes is one of the priorities of science.   The gravitational wave telemetry is not an exception to this.   In this presentation I will present the techniques I used to embed the usage of sound as an alternative to support the scrutinization of these events and the following comparative studies going on towards proving or discarding...

The REINFORCE EU (Research Infrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe) was a three-
year long SwafS project which engaged citizens in active collaboration with the
scientists working in large research infrastructures across Europe. The overall aim
was to bridge the gap between them and reinforce society’s science capital. The
citizen scientists had at their disposal data from four different...

Creating a perfect cosmic ray detector for the purpose of CREDO is a task that has been undertaken not once in the past by projects like CosmicPi, CREDO-Maze or Astro-tectonic . Diversity of used detectors can become an advantage in the search of new cosmic ray related phenomena but it requires a good understanding of used devices. We would like to present our proposition of a device that...

For several months, PTMA has been actively participating in the CREDO project by the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow. To detect secondary cosmic radiation particles, participants build measuring stations consisting of Samsung mobile phones. The long period of operation allowed me to formulate a few technical comments regarding the operation of the...

Not only optical magnetometers are the most sensitive magnetic-field sensors, but they may also be used to search for non-magnetic spin couplings, including those associated with hypothetical dark-matter interactions. The performance of the sensors will be discussed in the context of searches for exotic spin couplings using a network of synchronized magnetometers [1], which extends the...

We present application of plastic scintillating detectors with SiPM and coincidence readout electronics for muon detection. Selected properties are shown, measurements are compared with expectations. Despite the low energy resolution of this type of sensor, muon peak is observed in energy spectrums. Testing measurements were performed in the laboratory and underground.

n this talk I will present the activities that we are carrying out at UNAB related with experimental astro/particle physics. I will also present our proyect related with earthquake precursors and other related projects.

Naturally occuring cosmic particles, mostly muons, reach the Earth surface continuously and nearly uniformly, and due to their high energy can cross as much as 10-1000m of rock. Since muons propagate along straight lines, one can use these particles for imaging the internal density structure of large objects. More than five decades ago, this method has been used to search for hidden chambers...

MCORD (Modular Cosmic Ray Detector) was designed as a tool that can be used both in large physics experiments and on a much smaller scale for observations in small projects. This is pos- sible thanks to its segmented and scalable structure. The basic features of this detector will be presented as a tool that we propose to use when searching for local correlations between the level of...

Introducing the AstroTeq.ai Basic detector, a compact cosmic ray detector with advanced features. Designed for discreet cosmic ray analysis, it employs dual scintillators and SiPM in a TOP-BOTTOM coincidence setup. With GPS for precise location, WiFi for real-time communication, and an internal battery for uninterrupted operation, the device ensures reliable detection without disruption. The...

In this short contribution, I will show our recent results
in cosmic ray particle physics and the involvement of our research
group at the Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava, in
the CREDO project. I will discuss charged particle acceleration
models, focusing on particle dynamics in the combined gravitational
and magnetic field around a rotating black hole. Application...

Advacam detectors of the Timepix family with the pixelated semiconductor chip developed within Medipix Collaboration at CERN allow for radiation energy detection with precise position information in a wide range of deposited energies. Their capabilities will be demonstrated on the results of several space projects where space radiation fields were composed of components with diverse particle...

In our laboratory two low background gamma spectrometers with germanium
detectors are equipped with active shield. Such shield is a system of
five large plastic scintillatior detectors sensitive for muons
surrounding the massive cubic lead shield of spectrometer from five
sides. The active shield works in the anticoincidence mode with
germanium detector. In our spectrometers data is...

The Jánossy Underground Research Laboratory (JURLAB) is part of the
Vesztergombi High Energy Laboratory (VLAB). This one of the TOP 50
research infrastructures in Hungary and located in the Wigner Research
Centre for Physics, Csillebérc, Budapest, Hungary. It has been built in
the 50s for cosmic muon measurements and used intensively by Lajos
Jánossy. Today, after several renovation, this...

In this talk, the conceptual design of a compact particle detector will be presented, using the development of new systems such as embedded systems to be able to carry out signal preprocessing in real time, the system will make simultaneous measurements of atmospheric variables to be able to make subsequent or online corrections of the generated signals in the detector. The main idea of this...

Cosmic rays are anticipated to give rise to cascades of product particles during their journey through space, resulting from interactions with fields, radiation, and matter. These phenomena, collectively known as cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE), are expected to exhibit variations in shapes, sizes, and constituents. Comprehensive studies of CRE necessitate an alternative approach to cosmic ray...

The recent, ongoing as well as planned CREDO ML research activities will be discussed. So far CREDO ML focused on the analysis of individual cosmic ray events including the filtering of artifacts and hardware noise and attepmts to associate event shapes with particular particle types. In terms of ML methodologies these were supervised binary and multi-class problems, respectively. We also...

The author statistically evaluates the public data from the CREDO science project.[1]
Starting from observations on the live website data, some effects will be investigated looking through the whole available data set.
Especially I will focus on how long users and devices contribute.
There an interesting divergence between live data and stored data is observed.
Another effect which can be...

This research endeavors to forecast earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or greater within a 1000 km radius from three cosmic ray stations, employing machine learning methodologies. Our approach incorporates a feature store library for streamlined data preparation, encompassing 360 hours of cosmic ray data and the time elapsed since the last earthquake. Utilizing a feature store library and a...

Antonio Napolitano
Department of Engineering
University of Napoli “Parthenope”, Italy

https://sites.google.com/site/antnapol
antonio.napolitano@uniparthenope.it

Presentation of the main research topic related to CREDO collaboration at the University of Napoli “Parthenope”, Italy:

**Exploitation of Cyclostationarity and its Generalizations for Science Data...

I'll report on progress with understanding the physics of the cosmo-seismic correlations. The main observations associated with the effect point to the role of both solar magnetism and lunar gravitational forces, although the latter does not appear to have a tidal character. In addition we observe a clear appearance of the sidereal day periodicity in both cosmic ray and earthquake data. None...

I will briefly explore the connection between modified
theories of gravity and models based on the generalized uncertainty
principle. This connection enables the examination of gravity proposals
through tabletop experiments. Using the Landau model of liquid helium as
an illustrative example, we will delve into the details. Additionally, I
will demonstrate the application of Earth seismic...

I'm going to explain why why earthquakes are affected by tidal forces and then showing how quakes correlate with UAPs, using recent paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-49527-x. In the end, I would mention the 10.1-10.2 year lunar periodicity as a reference to the cosmo-seismic effect reported in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2023.106068.

PeVatrons are natural particle accelerators that can accelerate particles with energies of up to 1 PeV. Although the term PeVatron was coined by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) collaboration in 2016 through the analysis of the galactic center, its era began in 2021 thanks to the discovery of ultra-high energy gamma-ray sources by highly sensitive observatories such as the High...

In this contribution, we present to the CREDO community the SpES (Space & Earth Sciences) research group of the University of Extremadura, which is a member of the CREDO consortium. This research group attempts to make significant advances in Earth sciences using a global perspective. Its main research areas are Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Climatology, Meteorology, and History and Teaching...

Presentation of Experyment Science Center in Gdynia. Since 2021 we are participating in citizen science collaborating with Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Science. I will tell about our experience in citizen science and about our plans connected with CREDO.

PTMA as an organization has been an official member of the CREDO consortium since September 2022. Members of the Society give lectures and demonstrations of detection stations during internal PTMA meetings, science picnics and festivals, astronomical events and sky observing.

From 2023, the CREDO.science promotion is also carried out as part of the international space education project...

Presentation of AGH University of Krakow as an institutional member of the CREDO research collaboration. Discussing the role of the university, identifying the researchers involved in the collaboration, with particular emphasis on current and planned CREDO-related activities and future potential contributions to CREDO.

We would like to give a brief overview of the idea behind the CREDO-Maze project realised at the University of Lodz and summarise its status today. For some time now, we have been testing and continuously improving the design of the detectors and their electronics, adding various components that may not be necessary for CREDO itself, but may be useful for other purposes, including education....

Are we one step away from tokenizing the CREDO detector?
Will the creation of a micro-payment system using Blockchain technology
and rewarding active CREDO app's users with CREDO tokens contribute
to the popularization and significant increase in the power of the detector?

The use of the AI can bolster the community involvement in the science that also carries the educational aspect of learning about the LLM and can include local high schools to produce the materials for the learning of the metal networks. Additional school involvement can be in the forms of hosting simple hardware solutions as additional data collection stations, some of that may start under...

We will discuss the first draft of the CREDO Bylaws which would be the first step on the CREDO Organizational Road Map: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pLpV3cPLvRpgYXowGbJs7WAqzqCFFk5vc6avjx9Vu9g/edit?usp=sharing
Feel free to comment & suggest edits also before and after the session.

"Playing with the Universe" - One of the main drivers of the CREDO mission.

Update, perspective on further actions. Exploration.

To what extent are the random signals we observe a coincidence? Can cosmic radiation be a carrier of signals from autonomous systems - the 'cosmic ether'?

"Playing with the Universe" An artistic endeavor engaging all willing participants present during the...

PTMA as an organization has been an official member of the CREDO consortium since September 2022. Members of the Society give lectures and demonstrations of detection stations during internal PTMA meetings, science picnics and festivals, astronomical events and sky observing.

MCORD (Modular Cosmic Ray Detector) was designed as a tool that can be used both in large physics experiments and on a much smaller scale for observations in small projects. This is possible thanks to its segmented and scalable structure. The basic features of this detector will be presented as a tool that we propose to use when searching for local correlations between the level of earthquakes...