Your smartphone can detect cosmic rays
Researchers from University of California have tested that a smart phone camera can detect high energy photons and particles of the sort produced by cosmic rays. |
NEW YORK: Can your smart phone detect very high-energy cosmic rays that hit the Earth from space? Yes, say physicists.
Researchers from University of California have tested that a smart phone camera can detect high energy photons and particles of the sort produced by cosmic rays.
Testing with radioactive isotopes of .radium, cobalt, and cesium showed that the detector easily picked up gamma rays.
They also put a phone inside a lead box and showed that they could detect high energy particles.
Finally, researchers took a phone up on a commercial flight and were able to obtain a particle track across the detector.
The project is called CRAYFIS (Cosmic RAYS Found In Smartphones).
When your phone is inactive and plugged in for charging, CRAYFIS monitors the camera, looking for signs of high-energy items striking the detector, arstechnica website reported.
According to researchers, if they can get 1,000 active cell phones within a square kilometer area, they will be able to detect nearly all of the high energy cosmic rays that strike the atmosphere.
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