Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory

Piotr Homola; Dmitriy Beznosko; Gopal Bhatta; Łukasz Bibrzycki; Łukasz Bratek; Michalina Borczyńska; Nikolay M. Budnev; Dariusz Burakowski; David Edwin Alvarez-Castillo; Kevin Almeida Cheminant; Aleksander Ćwikła; Punsiri Dam-o; Niraj Dhital; Alan Duffy; Piotr Głownia; Krzysztof Gorzkiewicz; Dariusz Góra; Alok C. Gupta; Zuzana Hlávková; Martin Homola; Joanna Jałocha; Robert Kamiński; Michał Karbowiak; Marcin Kasztelan; Renata Kierepko; Marek Knap; Péter Kovács; Szymon Kuliński; Bartosz Łozowski; Marek Magryś; Mikhail V. Medvedev; Justyna Mędrala; Jerzy W. Mietelski; Justyna Miszczyk; Alona Mozgova; Antonio Napolitano; Vahab Nazari; Y. Jack Ng; Michał Niedźwiecki; Cristina Oancea; Bogusław Ogan; Gabriela Opiła; Krzysztof Oziomek; Maciej Pawlik; Marcin Piekarczyk; Bożena Poncyljusz; Jerzy Pryga; Matías Rosas; Krzysztof Rzecki; Jilberto Zamora-Saa; Katarzyna Smelcerz; Karel Smolek; Weronika Stanek; Jarosław Stasielak; Slawomir Stuglik; Jolanta Sulma; Oleksandr Sushchov; Manana Svanidze; Kyle Tam; Arman Tursunov; José-M. Vaquero; Tadeusz Wibig; Krzysztof W. Woźniak

doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0298.v1

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Homola, P.; Beznosko, D.; Bhatta, G.; Bibrzycki, Ł.; Borczyńska, M.; Bratek, Ł.; Budnev, N.; Burakowski, D.; Alvarez-Castillo, D.E.; Almeida Cheminant, K.; Ćwikła, A.; Dam-o, P.; Dhital, N.; Duffy, A.R.; Głownia, P.; Gorzkiewicz, K.; Góra, D.; Gupta, A.C.; Hlávková, Z.; Homola, M.; Jałocha, J.; Kamiński, R.; Karbowiak, M.; Kasztelan, M.; Kierepko, R.; Knap, M.; Kovács, P.; Kuliński, S.; Łozowski, B.; Magryś, M.; Medvedev, M.V.; Mędrala, J.; Mietelski, J.W.; Miszczyk, J.; Mozgova, A.; Napolitano, A.; Nazari, V.; Ng, Y.J.; Niedźwiecki, M.; Oancea, C.; Ogan, B.; Opiła, G.; Oziomek, K.; Pawlik, M.; Piekarczyk, M.; Poncyljusz, B.; Pryga, J.; Rosas, M.; Rzecki, K.; Zamora-Saa, J.; Smelcerz, K.; Smolek, K.; Stanek, W.; Stasielak, J.; Stuglik, S.; Sulma, J.; Sushchov, O.; Svanidze, M.; Tam, K.M.; Tursunov, A.; Vaquero, J.M.; Wibig, T.; Woźniak, K.W. Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory. Symmetry 2020, 12, 1835. Homola, P.; Beznosko, D.; Bhatta, G.; Bibrzycki, Ł.; Borczyńska, M.; Bratek, Ł.; Budnev, N.; Burakowski, D.; Alvarez-Castillo, D.E.; Almeida Cheminant, K.; Ćwikła, A.; Dam-o, P.; Dhital, N.; Duffy, A.R.; Głownia, P.; Gorzkiewicz, K.; Góra, D.; Gupta, A.C.; Hlávková, Z.; Homola, M.; Jałocha, J.; Kamiński, R.; Karbowiak, M.; Kasztelan, M.; Kierepko, R.; Knap, M.; Kovács, P.; Kuliński, S.; Łozowski, B.; Magryś, M.; Medvedev, M.V.; Mędrala, J.; Mietelski, J.W.; Miszczyk, J.; Mozgova, A.; Napolitano, A.; Nazari, V.; Ng, Y.J.; Niedźwiecki, M.; Oancea, C.; Ogan, B.; Opiła, G.; Oziomek, K.; Pawlik, M.; Piekarczyk, M.; Poncyljusz, B.; Pryga, J.; Rosas, M.; Rzecki, K.; Zamora-Saa, J.; Smelcerz, K.; Smolek, K.; Stanek, W.; Stasielak, J.; Stuglik, S.; Sulma, J.; Sushchov, O.; Svanidze, M.; Tam, K.M.; Tursunov, A.; Vaquero, J.M.; Wibig, T.; Woźniak, K.W. Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory. Symmetry 2020, 12, 1835.

Abstract

The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a newly formed, global collaboration dedicated to observing and studying cosmic rays (CR) and cosmic ray ensembles (CRE): groups of a minimum of two CR with a common primary interaction vertex or the same parent particle. The CREDO program embraces testing known CR and CRE scenarios, and preparing to observe unexpected physics, it is also suitable for multi-messenger and multi-mission applications. Perfectly matched to CREDO capabilities, CRE could be formed both within classical models (e.g. as products of photon-photon interactions), and exotic scenarios (e.g. as results of decay of Super Heavy Dark Matter particles), their fronts might be significantly extended in space and time, and they might include cosmic rays of energies spanning the whole cosmic ray energy spectrum. CRE are expected to be partially observable on Earth even if the initiating interaction or process occurs as far as ~1 Gpc away. They would have a footprint composed of at least two extensive air showers with correlated arrival directions and arrival times. Since CRE are mostly expected to be spread over large areas and, because of the expected wide energy range of the contributing particles, CRE detection might only be feasible when using available cosmic ray infrastructure collectively, i.e. as a globally extended network of detectors. Thus, with this review article, the CREDO Collaboration invites the astroparticle physics community to actively join or to contribute to the research dedicated to CRE, and in particular to share any cosmic ray data useful for the specific CRE detection strategies.

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