Physicist Turns Smartphones Into Pocket Cosmic Ray Detectors

A new smartphone app developed by Justin Vandenbroucke, a UW-Madison assistant professor of physics, can essentially turn Android phones into pocket cosmic ray detectors. The app, DECO, uses the phone's camera to capture energetic subatomic light particles and log data. The project, which is primarily educational, is supported by grants from the American Physical Society as well as the Knight Foundation and the Simon-Strauss Foundation.

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