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MUONS AND OTHER PARTICLES
What are cosmic rays, and muons?
Are cosmic rays of any use, are they a danger?
How do cosmic rays reach the Earth, and why do they arrive from all directions equally?
What is a cosmic ray shower and how are cosmic rays similar to rain?
Why are there unstable particles? What is the mean-life?
What do Einstein and special relativity have to do with cosmic rays?
If cosmic rays reach the Earth more or less equally from all directions, why do we detect many more coming from the vertical?
What is Arturo Duperier's main contribution to physics and the study of cosmic rays?
MUSEUM DETECTOR
How does a Geiger tube work and what particles can it detect?
How does the cosmic ray detector at the Museum work?
How do we know the direction from which cosmic rays arrive at the Museum?
Why make a detector like those of 80 years ago?
Where do the Geiger tubes of the Museum's detector come from?
ALLOWED DATA
How are data presented and how can they be downloaded?
The fine print: can data from different channels be compared?
What can I do with the data? Examples of analysis
