Low-cost data acquisition card for school-network cosmic ray detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 III, 2004, Pages 926-930

  Hansen, Sten ^a   Jordan, Thomas ^a   Kiper, Terry ^a   Claes, Dan ^b   Snow, Gregory ^b   Berns, Hans ^c   Burnett, T H ^c   Gran, Richard ^c   Wilkes, R Jeffrey ^c  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Education; Elementary particles; Global positioning system (GPS); Particle measurements; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BAROMETERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMIC RAYS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

DETECTOR ARRAYS; ELECTRONIC CRATES; PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER (TDC);

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 3342923569     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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